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A cool, wet growing season puts a premium on vineyard management
Posted: May 27, 2008 By James Molesworth
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A platform holding several large wine tanks suddenly collapsed, spilling thousands of liters of wine and seriously injuring one cellar worker
Posted: March 7, 2008 By Tyson Stelzer
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Giuseppe Mazzocolin of Felsina runs the family estate in Chianti Classico -- and he produces some of the region's top wines. Surrounded by the Sangiovese harvest, Giuseppe shares the rich heritage of Felsina, its vineyards and its people.
Posted: January 7, 2008
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A preliminary look at quality in the wine regions of Austria and France
Posted: December 19, 2007
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A preliminary look at quality in the wine regions of Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain
Posted: December 19, 2007
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A preliminary look at quality in the wine regions of the United States
Posted: December 18, 2007
Nov. 15, 2007 Issue
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Posted: November 15, 2007
Blogs
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Richard Betts' Blog
Posted: November 12, 2007 By Richard Betts
I recently found myself in the Rhône Valley with about 30 other pickers taking refuge in the shade of an old storage shed. Mid-afternoon, we all sat hot, parched, sticky and, in my case, with a deep cut on my hand that continued to spurt blood hours after I attempted to leave that piece of my finger in the vineyard.
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Seasonal
Early-spring warmth kick-started what could be a great vintage for Syrah
Posted: November 2, 2007 By Laurie Woolever
Oct. 31, 2007 Issue
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Mild weather keeps producers hoping for great wine quality
Posted: October 31, 2007 By Daniel Sogg
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The winemaker at Washington's Leonetti Cellars sees yet another outstanding vintage of Merlot in the family winery's future
Posted: October 31, 2007 By Robert Taylor
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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.
