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 1990 + California
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | DR. VINO JANUARY 18, 2011 Bob Trinchero on the first Sutter Home white zinfandel million cases; by 1990, they hit three million cases. Louis (Bob) Trinchero, “California Zinfandels, a Success Story,&# an oral history conducted in 1991 by Carole Hicke, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. W$Jay was slumming it with zinfandel recently. Mistake. | DR. VINO OCTOBER 6, 2009 Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman Premature oxidation of dry, age-worthy white wines–be they from Burgundy, Bordeaux or California–is a tremendous problem today, and at this point in time it does not look to me as if any meaningful progress has been made since the scourge first became readily apparent when the 1996 white Burgundies began to tank. think not. | | | | | |
| | | ALICE FEIRING SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 California Reconsidered: Part One In August I headed to California to work on a story about Hank Beckmeyer I also visited some of my friend, Paige Poulos's clients. Could I find out something about the thing that so confuses me about the soul of California's wine? remember being impressed by Murrieta's Meritage back in 1990. She was right. talked. had a mission. | EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK AUGUST 2, 2007 Here Is My Little Therory.Am I Nuts? feel that the 1990's were good and bad to merlot in the United States. Then it caught on and became a kind of demented obsession for the mass market as producers in California began to industrialize one hundred percent merlot to the point of lunacy. By the end of the 1990's merlot was not what it was before the craze. Hell no. | EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK OCTOBER 3, 2008 CHARDONNAY: A STUDY IN WHAT WENT WRONG European vines traveled to California in the mid 19th century. So much that by the time prohibition came into play in our history there were about 700 wineries in Cali alone (this number wasn't matched until the 1990's). Chardonnay came to California in the 1930's but wasn't thought about much. Most fruit wasn't so good." | | | | | | | |
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