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134 year-old California wine research: Conclusions pending

Erika Szymanski
Features
6 min read
In 1880, Dr. Eugene Hilgard asked the California state legislature for $3000 to start a wine research program at the University of California, and he got it. His first start-up – the “California Agricultural Experiment Station,” now transmogrified into the University of California Davis's massive agricultural extension program – had

Ten Things I Learned In the Wine Business

W. Blake Gray
Features
6 min read
Howdy. I'm delighted to introduce myself as Palate Press' first columnist. I've been writing about wine for more than a decade, as a freelancer and as a staff writer for a couple of publications, but what I haven't written about before today is that I also spent a little over