For the Wineries

Pommery Champagne
A Proper Pommery Pairing
Back in May I started a new collaboration with Pinch My Spice and Moishe Mayer that I just love: #WineandspicE. WE. Three professionals—one devoted to food, another to wine, and me to everything—creating content that has been overwhelmingly well-received.
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Tannat Structure Alan Lacke
Meet Structure, My Newest Wine Collaboration
Structure: a way to describe a wine’s components in the mouth considering fruit concentration, level of sweetness, acidity, tannin, and alcohol. This is where my head was when developing a brand for a random barrel of Tannat that winemaker extraordinaire...
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Matayer wine
Matayer
Another Purple Heart that hits close to home. A Moishe Mayer and Matar Winery collaboration brought to life by Todd Germann's ability to understand exactly what I was looking for in this wine label.
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Artist Series Pinot Noir Moishe Mayer
The Artist Series Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara
This medal is 100% influenced by everything that my collaborators and I had to do to make this project possible. Much unlike the rest of points and medals… 
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Chardonnay wine tasting
My Kendall Jackson Crisis
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As I grapple with having blindly assessed an $11 Kendall Jackson Char as “Very Good” according to WSET standards, so many thoughts...
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#USEME
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Hashtags. Use ‘em. And with that, you could go ahead increase my bounce rate, leave the page, because that’s the meat. I led with the meat.  However, hear me out.  
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Winemaker Roberto Henriquez
Tasting Notes: White Grapes Left To Be
As this week is all about the orange, the skin-contact, the skin-fermented, whatever you want to call them....here are some notes from notable sips of white grapes that were left to be.
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thebeatrose
The Beat
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I drink to the beat of my own drum. Sometimes I have red when the pairing should be white. I’m not beyond pouring juice into a pretty cup just to switch it up. Maybe it affects the swirl, but I...
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Vinha da malhada
The Back Label Broken Record
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Again, this is nothing new from me, but I dunno, just felt like it was time for a public service announcement: PUT SOME JUNK IN THE TRUNK. Get that back label nice and round, 360 with everything else you got...
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rose wine label art
Super Wine Sunday
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’twas Super Bowl evening heaps of snow piled on the ground currently in isolation somewhere between wine, watercolor and touchdowns
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