Category: Wine
Truth in Wine:
Ulises Valdez, Man Behind the Grapes
This harvest, a few days before we picked our Chardonnay, we lost our Vineyard Manager and dear friend Ulises Valdez. He left behind a collection of outstanding vineyards producing some of the finest wines in California.
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Molly Nadav, Project Director, Covenant California
Molly Nadav works at Covenant California. She handles just about everything. Read more to learn about Molly!
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Judging Wine Quality:
Who Are the World’s Top Tasters?
What makes certain athletes superstars? Or one concert pianist a virtuoso, while another is just really good? The question holds for professional wine tasters, too.
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Does Vintage Matter?
Years ago in a restaurant in Bordeaux, I noticed that none of the wines on the menu were vintage designated. That is, the wines were listed without posting the years in which they were made. When I asked our server about the missing vintages, she replied, “They keep changing!” Indeed, each harvest brings a new vintage. So why worry about it?
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