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MOCK SOMM: William Hill Estate Winery, Central Coast, Chardonnay, 2013
Many who know me make fun of me for my staunch and very much vocalized aversion to Chardonnay. But this encased and ravenously coherent translation was a reminder to be humble with the white Burgundy…...
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wine thought 1
It shouldn’t be difficult, it shouldn’t be excessively ego-pummeled. And fun, yes, but interesting, and interesting how you want it to be. It should be yours, all yours! Not what some certified...
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wine thought 2
And on the red or white question I always answer both. Be closed off to anything, why? Why not be open and then decide? My sister’s a winemaker, and she used to say she didn’t like Pinot. Simple,...
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wine thought 3
And the rest of the Pinot, what I opened last night. Needed after a day, and this Pinot sympathizes, understands the beating I took today; working in a tasting room then teaching.. the wine’s there...
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wine thought 4
Sometimes I just stare. At the vineyard and the wine in the glass– sometimes it’s not about tasting or drinking, but just observing; all the people at the counter or bar or whatever you want to call...
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MOCK SOMM: Scherrer Winery, Sonoma County, Grenache, 2012
Some would throw at me, “How much liveliness can you expect from a Grenache?” I understand, am with your angst, I didn’t expect this much persuasive quality either. In the introduction of palate,...
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MOCK SOMM: Archival Wines, Sonoma Mountain, Farina Vineyard, Chardonnay, 2013
This translation presents not just an apexing display of fruit and acid synergy, not to mention textural prowess, but a view; a view of the vineyard from where it generates; high altitude voice, Sonoma...
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Pommard Perambulation
The walk told me everything, and the vineyard told me more. That block by the entrance. Accumulating clusters and characters and the air with its brushy and coy song whispered through the canes, leaves...
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MOCK SOMM: Handley Cellars, Anderson Valley, Pinot Noir, 2012
Not at all coy with its confident composition– cherry and some plum-esque suggestion coupled with ripe earth and softly-sequenced black spice– but again I find a Pinot far beyond the simplification and...
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MOCK SOMM: Handley Cellars, Anderson Valley, Chardonnay, 2012
And the Handley Chardonnay, more than just a stream of me being proven wrong about the grape, the varietal, that problematic genre in oenology– no, this has its own -scape, and diction, and curvature...
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MOCK SOMM: GReedy Wines, a reaction
Already in love with small producers, I was sure this was to be a label that would contribute to me and my story and transcending wine character in some new encompassing way. The wines are one facet...
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Barrel and Narrate
The half-marathon done, and I just scraped some time together to post– or write then post, a piece for client 1. Now I wait for the day to further evolve and progress, the week to start, have to wake...
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Souled on in about for Wine
The barrel and its inner-narrative At the home office desk trying to upload some articles for clients, no surprise. And the rest of this Albariño in my glass gone, I think about the ideas for this new...
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Matured in Vintage (wine/vino/vin principles, code)
cup 1 5:54AM and at keys, no not as early as I wanted but I’m here typing, thinking about taking on other clients and if I do that how my own writing will suffer. But enough of that now, the story for...
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After a full day of wine, I’m here
in the home office writing about wine, wine stories and wine visions, tasting today at a Healdsburg tasting room that was started by a guy who blogged his whole cellar experience. Bought one bottle of...
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Sipping Beatific Beats
For some reason, hot downstairs in the Autumn Walk castle.. and me, I’m writing freely sipping a red blend from someone I appreciate and study and admire. The whole day, today, my mood volatile. The...
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Morning of…..
Charging computer– I mean camera for SWCW event and I can’t wait for all the content. A little will be for the mmc site, but 98% of what I gather, whether visually or for note will be for the...
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Copying My Own Chronicles
Another scuffle with tech today, on this hotter than hot Sonoma County Summer Labor Day; my memory stick won’t dock with my wife’s school computer. So this unrest on wages. I won’t call it a war, as...
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And, finally, I’m back…..
And it had been, what… 5 years since I went last? For this year’s mission and chapter I decided to enlist my dad, one savvy and swift with a camera, and always helpful to this scatter-minded and...
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MOCK SOMM: Cirq , Treehouse Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, 2012
Waited to open this bottle, and I wish I would have waited longer. Just to see what else it would say and sing—or more so, wishing I had another 11 bottles. But this was a gift from Michael Browne...
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