Richard Leahy Now Contributing to Crushpad’s Wine Blog

Crushpad, an iconic custom crush winery in Sonoma County north of San Francisco, has hired a number of wine writers for their blog  at www.crushpadwine/blog.com, and their first stories have been posted.

The featured writers for the blog include an eclectic range of well-established wine writers, and they write on a wide range of topics.  Writers include: W. Blake Gray, author of “California Winetopia”; Liz Willette, a partner in Grand Cru, a fine wine importer and distributor; Ashton Keefe, Owner/Executive Chef of Ashton Keefe LLC. Culinary Lifestyle Services; Sondra Barrett, PhD, a wine and cooking maven; Ryan Callahan, General Manager of The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma; winemaker Patrick Saboe, and this author.

Willette writes on how to store wines, Barrett writes on Sonoma cuisine, Keefe tells us how to host a wine tasting party, Saboe writes on sugar levels in grapes, Callahan describes his custom crush experience at Crushpad, Gray explains the art of decanting, and I write on the relationship between wine and quality.

Also on the crushpad blog: an interview on Fox News with founder Mike Brill on how custom crush winemaking works, a podcast on “checking the fermentation bins” at the winery, links to food and wine, making your own wine, how the Crushpad model works for its clients, and food and wine travel.

The wealth of wine-related information on the blog is multi-faceted, educational, and de-mystifying.

I encourage you to visit the blog and share it with your friends learning about wine, and send us your feedback on the stories; see my new widget to the right.