Feature Stories

Home
Wine
Feature Stories

A Pinot Paradise in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Mary Orlin
Feature Stories
5 min read
Pinot Paradise If I had to name one grape varietal defining the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA in Northern California, it would be pinot noir.  There are as many variables to growing Pinot as there are soil varieties, microclimates and vineyards in this mountainous region.  You’ll find elegant, refined Pinots and

European Bloggers Morph to Digital Experts

Elisabetta Tosi
Feature Stories
4 min read
“Here we are,” I thought when I got off the bus at Dinastia Vivanco Wine Museum in Rioja, Spain. “Exactly like six years ago, when everything started...” No, wait, that’s not precisely true. At that time, here in Logroño there were maybe 50 of us from a handful of countries,

Bordeaux Week: Hail Bordeaux (Or Not, Please)

Erika Szymanski
Feature Stories
6 min read
If you're at all interested in French wine, you've heard that parts of Bordeaux were smashed by multiple severe hail storms this past July, August, and September. While many of the swankiest appellations were spared, damage to parts of Entre-Deux-Mers, along with Sainte-Estèphe and Pauillac, was flabbergasting. Some vineyards lost

Winetrepreneurs: Mike Anderson and MTGA Wines

Kristina Anderson
Feature Stories
4 min read
Mike Anderson got “very little pressure” from his parents to step into the family business at Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards. Friends of his parents and clients of the winery were not so subtle. That outside pressure “happened with enough frequency that when I was applying to colleges, I felt a