Palate Press

6 min read

Well over ninety percent of all wines produced are meant to be consumed within a year of their bottling. For the remaining few percent -- which include what most would consider the greatest still wines being produced in the world – how long do they have before they outlive their pleasurable

The Mother Vine: Livermore Reconsidered

Joe Roberts

Feature Stories

5 min read

That California’s Livermore Valley is largely off the radar for wine geeks and collectors is one of the more bizarre turns in the history of U.S. wine. While rarely mentioned in the same breath as Napa Valley, Sonoma County, or Paso Robles, it could easily be argued that no other

Southern California Dreamin’: How Ventura County’s Micro Wineries Are Trying to Break Through

Joe Roberts

Features

5 min read

If American winemaking has a twenty-first century mantra, it’s “great wine is made in the vineyard.” The concept of terroir – of the place where grapes are born triumphing over the actions of winemakers when producing fine wine – is inescapable, even for an area that remains the young upstart

State of the Un-Commonwealth: Pennsylvania’s Struggle To Produce Quality Fine Wine

Joe Roberts

Features

7 min read

It's a warm August day in the hills of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, a stretch of land that forms one of the most productive non-irrigated farming areas in all of the United States. In the tank room of Jan Waltz's winery, the better part of a dozen winemakers from across the

2009 Canyon Wind Cellars Anemoi Boreas

Joe Roberts

Wine Reviews

1 min read

A recent line of wines from Canyon Wind focused on Bordeaux-style blends, Anemoi Boreas shows what Colorado is capable of when it comes to red wines in favorable vintages. Gritty and full of dark berry fruits and blackcurrant, this is a serious wine what is just starting to integrate its

World-Class Wine In Harsh Conditions, Colorado’s Greatest Challenge May Be Man-Made

Joe Roberts

Features

7 min read

Quick—what do a former aerospace engineer, a computer tech industry entrepreneur, and a trained geologist who spent most of his career traversing the globe to find rare earth substances all have in common? If you answered “they all now make fine wine in Colorado,” you’d be correct, though chances are

Wine

The Philosophy of Rosé: From the Costaripa Winery on Lake Garda

The Story of Spain’s Top Wine Estates

A New-Old White Wine from Abruzzo in Italy

Random

Why Did the Wine Bloggers Cross the Road?

Spirits

Why Low-Alcoholic Wine May Be Increasing & An Adult Beverage Option; Even No-Alc can be Tasty

A Dog, a Mountain Hike and Gin

A Life-Saving Whiskey of Forests and Caramel

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Monday’s Martini – North Shore Distiller’s Gin No. 6

Travel

Wine Country Hospitality in Amador County

Why is Arianna Occhipinti a Winemaking Legend?

Top of the Mark Lounge in San Francisco Celebrates 85 years

Random

A Long Weekend in Newport Beach, California

Hospitality

Wine Country Hospitality in Amador County

Top of the Mark Lounge in San Francisco Celebrates 85 years

Women Chefs Seed Plant Forward Dining at The Grove in Napa

Random

A Long Weekend in Newport Beach, California

Tasting immortality

The Mother Vine: Livermore Reconsidered

Southern California Dreamin’: How Ventura County’s Micro Wineries Are Trying to Break Through

State of the Un-Commonwealth: Pennsylvania’s Struggle To Produce Quality Fine Wine

2009 Canyon Wind Cellars Anemoi Boreas

World-Class Wine In Harsh Conditions, Colorado’s Greatest Challenge May Be Man-Made