May 2009
Posted: May 11, 2009 10:30am ET
Just before I left for my recent vacation, I sat down with Pascal Jolivet. The Loire vintner wanted to show me a small vertical of one of his top single-vineyard bottlings of Sancerre, Le Chêne Marchand.
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Posted: May 8, 2009 3:18pm ET
One item to file, and that clears off my desk just in time for my vacation: David Finlayson , head winemaker at Glen Carlou , has resigned his position there and will now focus solely on his own Finlayson Family label.
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Posted: May 6, 2009 11:53am ET
There’s been quite a dust-up in the blogosphere lately about ethics among wine writers. The discussions have focused on what perks wine writers accept during the course of their work, and at what point these perks compromise the integrity and independence of the writers.
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Posted: May 5, 2009 9:46am ET
I got caught up with Bruwer Raats yesterday. He’s the owner and winemaker at Raats Family , located in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He currently produces about 9,000 cases annually, and sends about 4,000 to the U.
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