The Cortese Enigma

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
Many years ago, when I was just starting to become enamored of wine, my wife came home from a trip through Italy – I had not yet been – with the name in her notebook of a lovely white wine she had tasted a couple of times while in Milan. 

Ruchè: the wine

Becky Sue Epstein
Features
6 min read
This is the second in a two-part series on Ruchè this week on Palate Press. See Joe Roberts's profile of some important Ruchè producers here. The Ruchè wine we’re drinking these days is actually a new red wine, produced in seven small towns in northern Piedmont, Italy. It was created in the late

Faces of Ruchè

Joe Roberts
Features
6 min read
Piedmont's other red grape comes onto the world market with a new, colorful cast of winemaking characters. This is the first in a two-part series on Ruchè this week on Palate Press. For lovers of obscure wine finds, the sleepy little town Italian town of Grana might be the next destination

Best of 2015: Do “hand-picked” grapes mean better wine?

Erika Szymanski
Features
6 min read
This piece by our resident wine science specialist was short-listed for the Born Digital Wine Awards in the Best Investigative/Journalistic Wine Story. Erika ended up winning in this category, but for a different technical piece, published on her own site.  Stanford linguistic professor Dr. Dan Jurafsky's recent book on The Language of Food:

Best of 2015: The Oregon Chardonnay Clone Wars

Mary Cressler
Features
7 min read
Staff writer and Pacific Northwesterner Mary Cressler explores the controversial nature of discussing Oregon's clones of Chardonnay in this piece from March. Oregon’s controversial history with chardonnay clones culminated into one question earlier this month: do clones matter when it comes to chardonnay? We were there to find out at the fourth