This week we welcome Robyn Sebastiani from the Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Alliance. Robyn serves as Executive Director of both the alliance and its charitable foundation, and she joins us to talk about what the SVVGA actually does and how it all got started....
Sometimes we talk to winemakers who are part of big wineries and big production facilities. Other times we talk to winemakers like Fausto who are, truly, deeply part of the land and the culture and the area where they are from. Fausto is in the Piedmont area of Italy,...
Bordeaux hits back at its critics and prepares to take the fight to the cool kids with its revamped line of ‘clarets’... and it's all a horrible mess
Wine educator, journalist and researcher Deborah Parker Wong learned firsthand that the traditional wine introduction doesn’t work for Gen Z. She found a more effective entry: sweet wines.
With gas prices spiking, airfare following suit, and nightmarish security delays embroil many American airports, Adam, Joanna, and Zach ponder whether the tr...
by Andrew ChalkStefano Gagliardo is part of the sixth generation that is running Poderi Gianni Gagliardo in Italy’s Piedmont region. He came to town recently and presented the wines that are available in the US market. Some BackgroundThe estate was founded in 1847 by...
New Survey Highlights Importance of Recruiting: In the most recent consumer benchmark survey from the Wine Market Council, a red flag popped up; 35% of non-adopters said they didn’t like the taste of wine while 39% said they preferred the taste of other alcohol...
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