The Rise of Celebrity Wine Brands
Putting their reputation on the wine
This is the Age of Wine. Should it be surprising that celebrities, like entrepreneurs everywhere, want to be part of it?
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Ontario’s Rosewood Estates Reinvents Its Wines and Mead
Embracing wine trends pragmatically.
Adding a single skin-fermented white wine (aka orange wine) or a low-intervention wine (often known as natural wine) to a portfolio of conventionally made wines has become common. But Ontario’s Rosewood Estates Winery has undergone a remarkable transformation by adopting low intervention production for almost all its wines.
Things Are Heating Up in Napa Valley This Summer
Napa Valley 2.0.
The Napa Valley has always been lauded as North America’s premier wine region, and this summer new openings, renovations and education-centric activities will be enticing for both novice and advanced oenophiles.
Chef Alessa Valdez’ Spring Risotto Celebrates Wine Country’s Return
Post-winter awakening.
Alessa Valdez, chef at the Restaurant at Phantom Creek Estates, has invigorated the Okanagan food scene with her fine-dining-meets-wine-country-casual approach to cooking. This spring risotto, a home-cookery take on the standout dish from her recently debuted spring menu, is the perfect way to celebrate the Okanagan Valley’s post-winter awakening.
The Particular Terroir of Roussillon and the Canadian Fighting for Its Recognition
Res Fortes’ Wines are for the Brave.
If an in-depth understanding and wholesome appreciation of a thing is dependent on juxtaposition and cross-examination, then no winery knows and loves Roussillon like Res Fortes.
The Latest Alternative to the Glass Wine Bottle
Enter, the paper bottle.
The latest alternative to the glass bottle is paper. Paper has two of the advantages of plastic and aluminum: it doesn’t shatter like glass, and it’s very light–the weight of a paper bottle of wine is essentially the weight of the contents.
A Delightful Treasure From Friuli Venezia Giulia
The year 1956 was an important one in the history of Italian winemaking.
Fans of pinot grigio, the second-most-consumed white wine in North America, will surely know of Livio Felluga, possibly the most prestigious producer of white wine in Italy. The history of the Livio Felluga estate is well known not just to the people of Friuli Venezia Giulia but to all Italians and oenophiles.
The First English-Language Guide to South American Wine
Amanda Barnes and the oldest New World wines.
The South America Wine Guide is the brainchild and product of the sheer hard work of Amanda Barnes, an English wine writer who has lived in Argentina for the last dozen years.
5 Ridiculously Luxurious Wine Accessories
For when a bottle of Dom just isn’t enough.
Apart from a standard corkscrew and a basic stemmed glass, wine accessories are luxuriant but totally unnecessary. Here are five of the most fun—and totally unnecessary—accessories available to today’s hedonist.
