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A warm, dry summer meant ripe fruit in the Finger Lakes for Riesling producer Fox Run
Posted: October 22, 2007 By Mitch Frank
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Paso Robles' Viognier-obsessed winemaker has reason to celebrate after a sensational growing season
Posted: October 16, 2007 By Eric Arnold
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James Laube's Wine Flights
Posted: October 15, 2007 By James Laube
Friday’s steady rain made ducks, lawns and sturgeon fishermen happy, but not anxious North Coast vintners. The weekend weather turned appreciably warmer and allowed vineyard crews to swarm through the vines in what one vintner described as “panic picking” in Napa Valley.
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Harvest is make-or-break time for the vintage and the weeks leading up to it are crucial. This is when Wine Spectator senior editor James Suckling caught up with winemakers around Tuscany to see how 2007 looks in Montalcino, Bolgheri and Chianti.
Posted: October 15, 2007
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Kosta Browne's winemaker talks about this year's delayed harvest, and why it might be the best crop of Pinot Noir he's ever worked with
Posted: October 11, 2007 By Robert Taylor
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One of Napa's top winemakers talks about the outstanding season for Cabernet—and how it's a tougher variety to handle than most people think
Posted: October 9, 2007 By Eric Arnold
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Join Giacomo Neri in his vineyard and in his winery as he harvests grapes for his Tenuta Nuova Brunello di Montalcino. The 2001 bottling from this vineyard was named Wine Spectator Wine of the Year in 2006.
Posted: October 4, 2007
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Volume of Amarone wines will be down slightly in 2007 after hailstorms wiped out the crop in some vineyards, but spared others
Posted: October 1, 2007 By Jo Cooke
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Harvey Steiman At Large
Posted: September 27, 2007 By Harvey Steiman
Skies are clear and daytime temperatures are in the 70s this week in Oregon's Willamette Valley. They have started picking Pinot Noir grapes, but the growers and winemakers are nervous. They're expecting rain this weekend, the first of a series of storms lined up to wash across the Pacific Northwest coast.
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How do grapes turn into wine? Get the answer by watching fast-paced video from Australia's Barossa Valley, where, apparently, wine is made to a techno beat. Submitted by Tyson Bitter.
Posted: September 27, 2007
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Napa Cab specialist talks about the strong season in which winemakers' individual styles will show
Posted: September 27, 2007 By MaryAnn Worobiec
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James Laube's Wine Flights
Posted: September 26, 2007 By James Laube
In nearly 30 years of observing harvests in California and elsewhere, I’ve come to count on two things to be true. The first is that it takes a lot of beer to make good wine; the second is that no two vintages are alike.
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Beringer's winemaker talks about this year's harvest of Chardonnay, a grape with more character than many people realize
Posted: September 21, 2007 By Jennifer Fiedler
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Stirring the Lees with James Molesworth
Posted: September 20, 2007 By James Molesworth
I sat down with Catherine Champalou here at my office the other day. Champalou, along with her husband, Didier, runs Domaine Champalou located in Vouvray. Champalou founded her domaine back in 1985, with the purchase of a single hectare of vines (2.
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James Suckling Uncorked
Posted: September 19, 2007 By James Suckling
Today was a new day in Tuscany. It was bright and very windy. A cold wind came out of the north and dried up everything. There are still rain clouds around but they are blowing all over Tuscany. I spent the day with the Antinori family at their Chianti Classico estate, Tignanello.
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Zinfandel specialist talks about harvesting California's signature grape in Sonoma
Posted: September 19, 2007 By MaryAnn Worobiec
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James Suckling Uncorked
Posted: September 18, 2007 By James Suckling
The weather is really weird in Tuscany at the moment. This afternoon, my kitchen was flooded with water, after what looked like a monsoon blew through Il Borro. It must have rained about three or four inches in about half an hour! I still have high hopes for the harvest.
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On Tour with Maynard James Keenan
Posted: September 13, 2007 By Maynard James Keenan
Finally off the road for a while. Jet lag has actually been a bonus. I'm up super early. On my first morning back, I walked through the Merkin West vineyard at sunrise. Wow! I'll say it backward... WoW! Almost brought me to tears.
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A look at this year's Sauvignon Blanc harvest in Carneros through the eyes of Selene's winemaker
Posted: September 12, 2007 By Laurie Woolever
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Vintners strive to make the best of a difficult season plagued by wet weather through much of the summer
Posted: August 30, 2007 By Diana Macle
