I am generally skeptical of the notion of signature grapes, but in the case of the Finger Lakes, it would be hard to contest that riesling is really what makes that region go round. It is well-made all around the-read more-
You will rarely, if ever, visit a wine region about which you know essentially nothing. That was the curious position in which I found myself as I arrived for TasteCamp North last weekend in Niagara, Canada. I'm going to assume-read more-
If only it were so simple, to cruise through life smelling roses; but the obstacles blacken the countryside, and we unwittingly crush them beneath our boots. -- author unknown Wine lovers can be forgiven if they interpret this verse to-read more-
“I do like those bigger, lustier Pinots. I know some people around here spike ‘em with Syrah. Maybe I got seduced by them.” –Rex Pickett, author of Sideways and Vertical, in a Palate Press interview “Some wineries add a dash-read more-
Legal Issues The FTC, Bloggers, and Free Samples, linked in Advertisers Call for a Do-Over on FTC Blogger Rules, Amy Schatz, The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2009. The End of Direct Wine Shipping?, Mark Spivak, Palm Beach Illustrated: Readers-read more-
The Wine Trials 2011 is an interesting book. It has two basic premises, which it purports to support with scientific research. The first is that people, both wine experts and regular wine consumers, are so subject to the placebo effect-read more-
Whatever the cost of the average bottle of wine on your dinner table, it's a safe bet that it's less than $360. And yet that total—$360—is the average cost of a bottle of the top wine made by the producers-read more-
It's hard to believe we published the first Palate Press: the online wine magazine a year ago today. In that time we published 796 stories, including 372 wine reviews. Our stories have been written by 120 different writers on five-read more-