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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Truth be told, the whole year feels like a long stretched-out Halloween, with forest fires and pestilence being the marks o...

It was a smoke-filled day with forest fires raging wild along the West Coast. I was in back-to-back meetings, dealing with my own "fire...

One of the funnest parts in hobby winemaking is designing wine labels. I am not creative by myself, but as a group, we usually come up with ...

For better or for worse, a side benefit of being on social media is that I'm kept apprised of the latest wine fads. It appears that ther...

Last month, I wrote about  the first part of the Rioja experiment . The experiment serves to answer two questions raised from the book, Maki...

Is Rioja a great wine? Matt Kramer, a veteran wine critic, once made a bold claim to the contrary. In his book,  Making Sense of Wine , publ...

It has been over a month since Washington State imposed the stay-at-home order and a shutdown of non-essential businesses to slow down the s...