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Any color you like as long as it’s orange

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
4 min read
Picture this: a postcard perfect seaside town in Slovenia, blue skies, fresh seafood and a wine festival. But not just any wine festival – in Slovene and Italian (the two most encountered languages in this part of the world) the description is rendered as “white wines with long maceration”. But

A Year in Champagne lacks sparkle, info

Becky Sue Epstein
About
2 min read
I do hope that people who watch A Year in Champagne have seen this production company’s last feature, A Year in Burgundy. This Champagne film is like a Part Two in terms of wine education. It assumes a certain amount of wine knowledge. Drinking champagne is fun, glamorous, exciting. And

A Sparkling Wine Movement in the Pacific Northwest

Mary Cressler
Features
9 min read
There is a wine movement happening in the Pacific Northwest and it’s probably not what you’re thinking. It’s not pinot noir in Oregon. That happened years ago. And no, it’s not merlot in Washington. It’s sparkling wine. Though there are no exact numbers to show how many producers are currently

My favorite wines of 2014

Becky Sue Epstein
Feature Stories
2 min read
I can’t tell you how many hundreds of wines I’ve tasted this year. Wait, that sounds snobby. In truth, I’m privileged to be able to sample and evaluate wines all around the world – and sometimes I even get to drink them. Evaluating wines in a region often leads to