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James Laube
Merus' Shakeup Was Inevitable
Posted: 01:54 PM ET, 08/19/08
Making great wine and selling it at high price points isn’t always a guarantee for success. That’s just one of the story lines in the most recent shakeup at Merus.
Mark Herold’s departure as winemaker seemed inevitable once he and his former wife, Erika Gottl, sold the wine company last year, leaving him in charge of winemaking, but also reporting to her as general manager. Read more
James Molesworth
A Foiled Morning
Posted: 02:20 PM ET, 08/18/08
It's the dog days of summer for baseball and two-a-days are here for NFL teams as they get ready for the upcoming season. Most sensible folks are on vacation somewhere, and I'm not one of them. I've been doing my own version of two-a-days here at the office, busy plowing through two flights a day over the past several weeks, hence my rather quiet blog lately. Read more
James Suckling
The Dark Truth about Pure Sangiovese
Posted: 01:58 PM ET, 08/18/08
I have recently read a number of comments on the Internet about Sangiovese, and how it can’t make dark-colored wines with ripe tannins and full body. But it just isn’t true.
Sangiovese can and does make wines with a depth of color, fruit and tannins, and anyone who says it can’t just doesn’t know what they are talking about. Read more
Richard Betts
A Final Installment
Posted: 03:02 PM ET, 08/15/08
Well, I’ve gone and stretched eight weeks into 11 awesome months. That is in part due to me being so slow with the blog but hey, I’m working at it! Since my last installment, I’ve been pondering what to do with this one, my final of this run. Read more
James Suckling
Birthday Barolos
Posted: 01:53 PM ET, 08/15/08
I told Luca Sanjust of Petrolo that I would throw him a birthday dinner tonight, and what started as a small meal for a half dozen people is now up to 17 people! I had to clear out the furniture from my living room to make more dining space because we can’t eat outside tonight and use the big tables I have in my courtyard. Read more
Harvey Steiman
New Aussie Wines from Old Dogs
Posted: 02:34 PM ET, 08/14/08
I recently got a preview taste of the first wines from Oatley Estate. I wrote about this project last year after sharing a few drinks with the principals, owner Robert Oatley and executive deputy chairman Chris Hancock. Those two started Rosemount Estate in 1976 and created the fruit-forward easy-drinking style that made Australian wines a hit with American consumers. Read more
James Suckling
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Posted: 01:03 AM ET, 08/12/08
I blew my top a bit about an hour ago. I had saved two half-bottles of wine that some friends brought to dinner on Friday that I wanted to blog about. But apparently my cleaning lady either threw them out or drank them!
Anyway, Mike Figgis, the British film director, and his girlfriend, pianist Rosey Chan, came for dinner on Friday night, and Rosey brought a couple of half-bottles to serve me blind. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Want to Buy an Aussie Winery?
Posted: 10:24 AM ET, 08/11/08
Constellation Brands announced this week that it wants to sell three of its Australian winemaking facilities and lay off about 350 workers there. The announcement makes a lot more sense in the context of a conversation I had about a month ago with James Mariani, family proprietor of Banfi Vintners. Read more
James Laube
Harvest 2008: Green Thumbs Remove Green Berries
Posted: 01:00 PM ET, 08/08/08
Martha McClellan Levy talked yesterday about the loose clusters and small berries in the Levy & McClellan vineyard in Napa Valley. Then she showed one of the challenges facing winegrowers this year: uneven ripening and how some clusters still have green, immature or underripe berries among riper ones, and those need to be removed. Read more
James Laube
Seven Stones Is Art and Wine
Posted: 04:38 PM ET, 08/04/08
Napa Valley winery Seven Stones is in the middle of a mild controversy.
Located above Meadowood Resort, Seven Stones takes its name from a 100,000-pound granite sculpture created by Richard Deutsch that is indeed seven huge blocks of rock, taken from a quarry near Yosemite National Park. Read more
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