Posted on September 9, 2008 by Jason Kallsen
If you think about a ‘place’, it has a name you can attach to it. In wine, Chianti is defined, regulated, laid out. Likewise for Rutherford, Santa Lucia Highlands, Barossa Valley, etc. A ‘location’ is simply a spot of land, identifiable by a specific latitude and longitude (and thanks to Google Earth, you can zoom [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2008 by Jason Kallsen
This morning at 9:30 am, Tuesday August 19th, the single most emailed story on the New York Times website was not that Obama has decided a running mate, it was not the war in Iraq, it was not the Olympics. Here’s the true measure of the popularity of wine in today’s culture: it was about [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by Jason Kallsen
Big news from our friends on Spring Mountain, Fantesca Winery. Former Screaming Eagle winemaker Heidi Barrett has joined Fantesca! To say this is big news is the understatement of the year, and congrats to Duane and Susan for landing Ms. Barrett!
Next week is Winefest in Minneapolis (which, amazingly, gets better and better every [...]
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