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Gray Ghost’s 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon earns Double Gold in San Francisco
Gray Ghost’s 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon earned Double Gold honors at the 20th Anniversary of the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in California. Gray Ghost’s Cabernet was the only East Coast Cabernet to take Double Gold honors across seventeen different...
Wine of the Week: Cunningham Creek Herd Dog Red (Cabernet Franc) 2017
Cunningham Creek Winery, along with Thistle Gate Vineyard, both in Fluvanna County, are among the newest wineries in the Monticello AVA, since the re-drawing of the boundaries moved the eastern boundary from the Albemarle county line to follow the Rivanna River to...
My 60 Favorite Wines of 2019
This is my annual list of my favorite wines of 2019. I tasted maybe a hundred or more wines from around the East (Virginia, Finger Lakes and SW Michigan) and liked even more than these, but had to limit this list to the two and three star wines…and just a very few...
Trump Winery Fires Seven Undocumented Workers–After Harvest is Done and Before the Primary Season
As reported in the Washington Post on 12/31, the Trump Organization fired seven migrant workers at the Trump Winery without appropriate legal work permits. This happened nearly a year after the Trump Organization pledged to dismiss any workers without immigration...
Pierre Galet, French Grape Researcher and Father of Ampelographer, Dies at (almost) 99
Pierre Galet, a French viticulturist, researcher and developer of the science of ampelogaphy, or identifying grapevine varieties by the shapes and patterns in their leaves, as well as petioles, cluster patterns and shoots, died on December 30th of a heart attack just...
Wine of the Week: Michael Shaps Cabernet Franc 2010
When a very good or great vintage comes along, it's a good idea to buy enough to lay down for when they really mature, as you enjoy the other bottles when they're young. Any wine lover deserves to drink mature wines of a decade old or more, especially if they buy them...