Palate Press

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For this year’s second annual Barbera Festival, held in California’s Amador County, winemakers brought samples of some 85 expressions of this highly drinkable varietal. They came up from Lodi, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz and over from Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma to merge with a majority of Sierra

Uncorked: the Many Journeys of Marco Pasanella

Evan Dawson

Feature Stories

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Marco Pasanella's life is filled with more drama than most of us experience, and no doubt there is ripe material for a book. The problem with Uncorked is that it suffers from an identity crisis. Is it a memoir? A stirring drama? A how-to on building the retail store of

A Spaniard in Italy—Tuscan Tempranillo

Elisabetta Tosi

Feature Stories

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San Miniato is a delightful town in the province of Pisa, in Tuscany—it is also known as San Miniato al Tedesco meaning “of the German,” to distinguish it from another nearby San Miniato called “al Monte,” which is a convent in Florence about forty kilometers to the northeast. In this

Do You Really Want to Know? Label Transparency in the Wine Industry

Caroline Henry

Feature Stories

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What information does the consumer want from the wine he's about to drink? Today's labels include the alcohol percentage, sometimes a little tasting note or some generic information on the winery—and more often than not the "contains sulfites" statement. Is this really enough or does the consumer want more information?

Microsatellite DNA Analysis, Shaping Genetic Understanding of Grapes

Rob Tebeau

Feature Stories

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By Rob Tebeau Originally published in Palate Press: The online wine magazine Many wine enthusiasts are aware that cabernet sauvignon is the result of a crossing that happened long ago between sauvignon blanc and cabernet franc, but have you ever wondered just how we know that? Why do we know

Bottle Design and Trademark Law: Important reminders from the Maker’s Mark Case

John Trinidad

Feature Stories

3 min read

Imagine investing years of work developing and marketing a wine brand, and then being accused of infringing a deep-pocketed company’s trademark. It would stop you dead in your tracks. To minimize the risk of such claims, wineries regularly engage attorneys to review and register their brand names and logo designs.

Man on a Ledge: A Winemaker’s Journey Towards a New AVA

Steve DeBaker

Feature Stories

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This spring saw a new American Viticultural Area (AVA) burst onto the scene. Steve DeBaker, owner of Trout Springs Winery, spent years working on getting the Wisconsin Ledge designation passed. Palate Press asked him to tell the story of how the process took place and what it means for wineries

Uruguay’s Winemakers, Successfully Taming Tannat

Marisa D'Vari

Feature Stories

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“It used to be that when four businessmen lunched at a steakhouse, they couldn’t even finish a bottle of tannat,” a winemaker explains, referring to the very tannic, astringent wine native to Uruguay. Today that’s all changed as producers are employing a variety of means such as a five day

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Man on a Ledge: A Winemaker’s Journey Towards a New AVA

Uruguay’s Winemakers, Successfully Taming Tannat