Women winemakers

Kicking off #MerlotMe month with Napa Valley wine and lasagna soup (#winePW)

3 Comments / California wine, Merlot, Napa Valley, wine, Wine and food pairing, Women winemakers /

October is #MerlotMe month. Hooray! An entire month for tasting smooth, luscious and fruity Merlot, one of my favorite reds. What better way to start the party than by tasting two wines from Markham Vineyards in California’s Napa Valley. Here are five reasons why Markham is kicking off my celebration of #MerlotMe month this year: […]

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Here’s a novel to pair with your next bubbly

2 Comments / Books, Champagne, French wine, Historical fiction, wine, Women winemakers /

Who was Barbe-Nicole Clicquot and why should Champagne drinkers know her name? Clicquot was the first woman to make Champagne, but that’s not all. She was also among the first winemakers to use an innovative technique known as “riddling” to disgorge yeast from the bottle during second fermentation, thus clarifying the wine, and she was

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Five winemaking women of Alsace (#winophiles)

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When Sylvie Spielman started her winemaking career in the late 1980s, she was one of only a few women in the Alsatian wine industry. Things were tough for these early pioneers. Now, some three and a half decades later, the ratio of men to women is about 50/50, according to winemaker Mélanie Pfister. While more

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Meet Kerry Shiels: A Yakima Valley winemaker with vision (#WinePW)

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Washington’s Yakima Valley is a wine geek’s paradise – a magical place, geologically speaking, in one of the driest climates for viticulture on earth. Kerry Shiels of Côte Bonneville grew up here and as winemaker in the family winery for 10 years now, she feels like she’s “getting it” – the difference between sites, wines,

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Punset wines: the story of one woman’s perseverance (#Italian FWT)

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Are Italian women taken seriously? Or does the longstanding culture of Italian machismo persist? Looking at the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2020, Italy has the worst ranking in Western Europe on progress toward reducing disparities between men and women. Italy lags behind some African, East European and Asian countries, too, such as

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