AMERICAN WINE WRITER

By Benjamin N Spencer

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Guinness Is Opening Its First US Brewery In More Than 60 Years
junkee.com - By Bradley Johnston
Everyone knows the greatest pints of Guinness comes straight out of its homeland in Ireland. But soon we will get a close second, when the beer giant …
Wine Spirits Magazine | The Case for Chianti Classico
wineandspiritsmagazine.com
Ask a roomful of bright young sommeliers to name a red wine that’s value driven, food friendly and terroir expressive: The likely answer is …
Exploring the Potential for Hybrid Grapes in Cold Climates
sevenfifty.com - Mark Stock
The pancake-flat terrain of southern Minnesota is not widely known for its wines. But the Grape Breeding and Enology lab at the University of …
Coravin Is the Tinder of Wine, and I'm Not Interested
VinePair - Jamie Goode
5 minute Read Choice is brilliant until it’s a burden. Most of us crave variety, yet we fear change. These dichotomies make the business of being a …
The Quest to Grow the First Great American Wine Grape
smithsonianmag.com - Kevin Begos
This article is adapted from an excerpt of the upcoming book, Taste the Past: the Science of Flavor & the Search for the Origins of Wine. There’s no …
Where Does Wine Really Come From?
Wine Enthusiast - By Dylan Garret
Europe was relatively late to the game when it comes to winemaking, and the original inventors of our favorite fermented beverage are staging a …
Unearthing California’s Pre-Prohibition Wine Roots
The Daily Beast - Frances Dinkelspiel
Each year, millions of people descend on Napa and Sonoma counties to taste wine, eat at fine restaurants and marvel at the grapevines that stretch as …
Be Careful Trusting the American Palate When It Comes to American Wines
damewine.com - damewine
In Alphabet City in the East Village My earliest memories of drinking wine are filled with gritty pictures of downtown New York City, in the early to …
The ultimate hack for wine lovers
news.com.au - Margi Murphy
HUNDREDS are calling for this woman to overthrow The Donald as Time’s Person of the Year after she posted a household hack on Twitter.
PUNCH | Your Updated Guide to Orange Wine
punchdrink.com - November 16, 2016 story: Jon Bonné photo: Lizzie Munro
There’s a visceral reaction the first time you taste an orange wine. It doesn’t fit into all the boxes your wine brain has organized—too rich to be …
In Defense Of White Wine (Thoughts On Expert Scores And Red Wine Bias)
1winedude.com - 1WineDude
White wines get the review shaft (image: winecurmudgeon.com)A little over a week ago, my friend Jeff Siegel published details by PhD Suneal …
These Oregon Winemakers Are Making Chardonnay Cool Again
The Wall Street Journal. - Lettie Teague
Chardonnay has gotten a bad rap, but a group of Oregon producers are betting their reputations on the much-maligned grape. Their wines may still be under the radar, but Lettie Teague is betting they won’t
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Oregon via Oenotria
oregonwinepress.com
Anyone who ever ordered a pizza from a local Italian restaurant knows, Italy appears on placemats or menus as a great boot, poised to kick the soccer …
5 Reasons Celebrities Should Never, Ever Make Wine
The Wall Street Journal. - Lettie Teague
Celebrities today have become brands, looking to expand their presence into every realm—including wine. Wall Street Journal wine columnist Lettie Teague says enough is enough 1. Celebrities are famous
Poland's wine champion
meininger.de
Robert Mielżyński’s intimidating 6’ frame is what you’d expect from a former hockey player. He was a fighter even by the sport’s standards, as some …
The Case For Natural Wine: Interview with RAW WINE Founder Isabelle Legeron MW
Forbes - Lauren Mowery
One needn’t love all natural wines to root for the category’s success, and yet the movement has proved divisive within the wine industry. Do wine drinkers love all conventionally produced wines? Conventional
Napa Valley Vintner Brings Robotics To Winemaking Process
cbslocal.com
NAPA COUNTY (KPIX 5) – Winemaking is a centuries-old process. But at Hall Wines in Napa Valley, it’s getting a high-tech upgrade. A robotic sorter is …
Historic Winemaking Regions
Wine Enthusiast - By Mike DeSimone
Some of the oldest vineyards in the world are from Israel, Georgia and Turkey. Take a look at some wines you may have missed from these historic …
Genomics 101
ted.com - Barry Schuler
What is genomics? How will it affect our lives? In this intriguing primer on the genomics revolution, entrepreneur Barry Schuler says we can at least …
Wine
Making wine with biodynamically farmed grapes — and marijuana
Los Angeles Times - By Patrick Comiskey
The road to California's first commercially available pot-infused wine begins on a camping trip in Yosemite National Park in 2010. There, Lisa Molyneux, a Santa Cruz dispensary owner and pioneer in marijuana
French microalgae may be the answer to key vine diseases
harpers.co.uk
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You Think You Know Malbec Wine. You Are Wrong.
Bloomberg - Elin McCoy
First, a confession. I’ve long thought malbecs from Argentina vastly overrated, slack-jawed big reds found hanging out in bad steakhouses and touted …
Scientists Get Closer to Harnessing the Health Benefits of Red Wine
The Wall Street Journal. - Denise Roland
Researchers develop new formulations of resveratrol, which is found in small quantities in red wine, to make into a pill Scientists on opposite sides of the globe appear to be getting closer to harnessing
Donald Trump's World Atlas of Wine
timatkin.com
What is it with you people that you want to know what I think about wine all the time? When I became the new Emperor of Wine, and, really, I’m doing …
The New Rules of Pairing Wine with Sushi
FOOD & WINE - Carson Demmond
What works with the Japanese staple? More than you might think. When Garrett Smith, beverage director of NYC’s acclaimed omakase den Sushi Nakazawa, serves red wine alongside chef Daisuke’s artful nigiri,
Resurrecting the Original Sparkling Wine
wine-searcher.com
There's more to sparkling wine than Champagne, Caroline Henry discovers, as she explores méthode ancestrale wines.
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