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09.09.2013 Letters

Featured Letter: Wine quiz was impossible

To the Editor: Last week, when we brought home our weekly Suffolk Times, my wife and I retired to our deck in the early evening, cocktails in hand, to...

08.03.2012 Community

Wine Column: When keeping it simple is simply better

The marked difference between the way Americans and Europeans experience wine became apparent to me when I first attended VinItaly, Europe’s biggest wine trade fair, in 1997. Unlike the...

07.19.2012 Community

Wine Column: The barrel can make all the difference

On June 28, I attended a tasting for winemakers sponsored by Bouchard Cooperages, representing French tonnelleries (cooperages) Cadus, Damy, Vicard and Canadell. This tasting demonstrated subtleties in flavor and...

07.09.2012 News

Wine Column: Reasons to leave the hammock behind

When summer is in full swing, it’s hard to move off the patio at home. I can spend hours under my shady pergola, sipping something cool. Still, however much...

06.08.2012 Community

Wine Column: Time to smell the roses … and rosés

It’s June again, the glorious “days of wine and roses.” As a winemaker and wine educator, I’m often asked if rosé wines are really made from roses. It’s understandable...

05.11.2012 Community

Wine Column: Sustaining vines and the environment

Despite the romantic aura that surrounds the topic of wine, growing wine grapes is as challenging as other kinds of farming; maybe more so because the vine is a...

04.30.2012 News

Wine Column: Carving out her niche, California-style

Milla Handley has been making wine in California since 1975. Back then, she was one of very few women actually down in the cellar, dragging hoses around and monitoring...

04.13.2012 Community

Wine column: Tasting prompts bicoastal comparisons

On March 24, I attended a fascinating Winemaker’s Roundtable at Roanoke Vineyards in Baiting Hollow, where my friend (and former employee) Dan Kleck was invited to lead a comparative...

04.08.2012 Community

Wine Column: A taste of Europe in Argentina’s wines

Chile and Argentina are both defined by their shared border of the Andes Cordillera, that jagged mountain chain that runs down the spine of southern South America and affects...

03.16.2012 Community

Wine Column: A trip to Chile yields fruitful insights

Truly, the wine world has become very small. In the 1990s, the big joke in the wine industry was, “If you want to find a California winemaker, go to...

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