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Roger Morris writes about wine, food and travel for a variety of publications including Beverage Media, Town & Country, Details, Drinks Business and Wine Enthusiast. Morris lives in Pennsylvania and travels frequently to the world's major wine regions.

Malibu Coast: The Reluctant AVA

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
6 min read
It is a warm afternoon in early May, and the skinny shoulders of the Pacific Coast Highway – “PCH” to locals – are lined for miles with single files of parked cars as Angelenos enjoy a few hours of Sunday sun-soaking on the beaches along the Malibu Coast.  Traffic moves

The 7-Year Niche

Roger Morris
Features
4 min read
Readers of a certain age will remember Orson Welles assuring us in a 1979 TV commercial for Paul Masson – preserved on YouTube – that “we will sell no wine before its time.” But what is a wine’s time, especially a tannic red one?  When is it ready? Not surprisingly,
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California’s Champagne Affair

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
7 min read
Can California wineries make Champagne? Of course they can! Over the past three years, at least four California wineries have started doing so. Before I get sabered by a regiment of WSET candidates for dealing in alternative facts, let me hasten to add that these Californians are making their signature
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A Perfect Wine on the East Coast?

Roger Morris
Features
8 min read
Once you’ve tasted victory, its flavor tends to linger in your mouth. Especially if victory’s flavor flows from the nectar of 100-point red wines, wines you have personally sealed into the bottles. From 2002 to 2005, John Irving Levenberg was a leader of the team that garnered California’s Paul Hobbs

9 Reasons Merlot Will Rule the World

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
3 min read
Are we underestimating Merlot? While most people in the wine trade recognize Merlot is making a comeback in the U.S. after its numbers slipped in the wake of Sideways, perhaps there is something much bigger is happening. What if Merlot is really in the middle of a run to replace

Wine for the masses

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
As a long-time wine journalist, I have always taken a laissez-faire attitude when it comes to wine production. I have declined to be outraged at “industrial” wine production of millions of bottles of low-priced wine, as long as the wine is not unhealthy and if the claims made on the