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Michelle Locke
Michelle Locke is a San Francisco Bay Area-based freelance writer who writes about food, drink and travel for national newspapers and magazines. She blogs at www.michellelocke.com and tweets at @Locke_Michelle.

The Quixotic Quest of Carlos Falcó

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
3 min read
Spain is known for volume and it’s known for value. For vaunted wines of international renown? Not as much. Carlos Falcó and his fellow members of Grandes Pagos de España would like to change that. Falcó is one of the founders of GPE, a group promoting estate-grown, terroir-driven wines – pagos

Water and wine in drought-stricken California

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
2 min read
Drive into the Cakebread Cellars parking lot and it seems fairly normal. Nicer and prettier than most, sure, but otherwise standard. But look a little closer and you discover a cleverly engineered facility designed to up the winery’s water game. The pavers are permeable and rest atop a foot of

Catching up with Cognac

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
4 min read
You know you’re going old school when your guide opens a cellar door in Cognac and a bat comes flying at you. True story. And don’t get me started on the spiders. But while there’s beaucoup de history, heritage and cobwebby verisimilitude to be found in the home of France’s premium brown

For the love of peat: 200 years of Laphroaig

Michelle Locke
Features
3 min read
There are whiskies that seduce, whiskies that inflame, whiskies that captivate. And then there are whiskies like Laphroaig, a big, briny, smoky punch in the gullet that has been winning friends, or not, for 200 years. Peat is the secret to the distinctive, love-it-or-hate-it medicinal, seaweedy character of Laphroaig (la-FRYOG,