Off the Beaten Path in Northeastern Italy: Three Winemakers Discuss the Future

“Big industry is destroying nature. It is destroying people, too. That’s why the future lies in natural production, such as ours. Once you try this type of wine, the next morning you feel as if you had milk.”

Brimstone in the Bottle: Sulfur Compounds in Wine

The word “sulfur”, in my mind, is inexorably linked back to Mr. Burcik’s high school chemistry class

Dottie and John Share Their Thoughts About ‘Open That Bottle Night’

Dottie and John share their thoughts on Open That Bottle Night, the annual celebration they invented that “gives people a license to enjoy a bottle of wine for what it really is: an enjoyable, tasty beverage with some really good memories attached to it.”

No Detention for Drinking in School: Walla Walla Institute for Enology and Viticulture

“I think when you combine all of this [training] with the fact that our students get hands-on practical experience during the entire two years they are with us—we offer the best two-year EV education available.” Speaking as one of the graduates, I have to agree. The program was one of the best experiences of my life.

Our Favorite Wines of 2009

The Palate Press staff looked back on 2009, offering our tasting notes on the best wines we drank. We hope you enjoy them, and will tell us about your favorites, too.

The On-Premise Silver Lining: When Restaurants Get Wine Right

If you love wine, you’ve probably had at least one memorably bad wine experience in a restaurant. The reasons for poor wine service are, by now, painfully well known to most – unknowledgeable staff, a wine list that’s an afterthought, high price mark-ups, and other offenses. And, while bashing restaurant wine service seems to be in vogue, I’d like to switch it up and shine a floodlight on three restaurants that are getting it right.

Big Chili, Bold Wines

There are a couple of rules I follow when putting a menu together for a Super Bowl party. The food has to be copious (having to feed large men with equally large appetites for long hours–I learned about the infamous “football minute” early on in my football education), and it has to have kick!

Wine For Haiti – A Global Effort

Wine for Haiti has become an international relief effor to support earthquake relief for Haiti.

Wine for Haiti

The tragedy unfolding in Haiti is incromprehensible. The poorest nation in the western hemisphere has been struck by a natural tragedy most of us can not conceive, in the midst of defenseless poverty we can not imagine. A wine auction for the relief effort.

Becoming a “Made” Man in the Wine Mafia

Fuhgeddaboudit. When it comes to the link in between organized crime and wine, dating back to the Prohibition era, American history is rife with dashing gangsters and the grape.

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