February 2016

For the love of winemaking

Scene opens on a summer evening at a rural Central Pennsylvania winery. Couples and groups arrange themselves on the grass to picnic, drink wine and listen to music. Soon the lawn is a sea of blankets and folding chairs. While guests settle down in these idyllic surroundings, I’m busy lifting and lugging cartons of Chardonnay, […]

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Read a little but taste (wine) a lot

As someone who consults on wine matters, I feel obligated to keep up on trends. So I follow a few writers, bloggers, and Twitter users whose knowledge and experience add to my understanding of the industry. I don’t care for writers who are pretentious or self-absorbed. I read less for wit than I do for

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