How John Shafer selected a hillside
Objectivity shmobjectivity. I was pumped to land an hour-plus last summer with one of the Napa Valley’s iconic figures, John Shafer. In... Read More
Mondavis come full circle
Our story begins, as so many wine-soaked sagas do, on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. It was there that Cesare Mondavi... Read More
A great read: Kermit Lynch, ‘Adventures on the Wine Route’
It’s been more than a quarter-century since Kermit Lynch wrote “Adventures on a Wine Route.” But this masterwork is dated only in... Read More
Oh, James!
OK, this is worth a look for the illo alone.
How is wine like art?
Because sometimes this is the way we should approach it: “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were... Read More