My 2022 Wine Revelation
My 2022 revelation is three-fold: Greek wine is girthy and gracious. Xinomavro is up there with Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo in my life. Domaine Tatsis is a solid Greek wine producer.
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Residual Sugar in Sparkling Wines
The sweetness you feel in any wine, sparkling or still, is a result of sugar that didn’t fully convert to alcohol during fermentation or sugar added post-fermentation. In sparkling wine, we refer to any added sugar as dosage. Understanding residual...
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Pet Nat: The OG of Bubbly
Pet Nat. Pétillant Naturel. Naturally Sparkling. Ancestral Method. A fizzy, often funky wine that finishes fermenting in the bottle. The OG of bubbly. Master of Wine and lovely instructor at the International Wine Center in New York City, Mary Gorman-McAdams...
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Ditch Your Veuves and Get Into Grower Champagnes
Purple Mouthed Tip: For the same price — often less — you’re going to find a much more exciting bottle, one that doesn’t ride on the price of making you a sheep, rather hard work and place. So ditch your...
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WSET D4 – The Sparkling Wine Takeover
Though I'm as bubble-mouthed as I am purpled, this portion of the diploma program has me on edge. I've fizzed well for years now, but never with the focus I've applied to still wines…bubbles are what got us through all...
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My Rhôneissance
So I’m in whole a Rhôneissance thing right now. The Côte-Rôtie, Cornas, Gigondas, the big Pape-A…All things considered, at least the #WSETDiploma program has given me that, because prior to, I never knew about these outstanding wines that are so...
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Welcome to My #DIPWSET Journey
And it’s official, my WSET Diploma studies are underway once more! This week I began what will be the most intense, most difficult course of my wine life to date: D3 - Wines of the World. Spanning over nine months with weekly...
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