The below was created as a guest post for Cory Cartwright’s series: 32 Days of Natural Wine. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, make your way over to his site and start reading!

The Original All Blacks wreaking havoc on the rugby world in 1905.
I was originally slated in for tomorrow, but who really [...]

…or as we like to see it, The Rise Of Wine!
You can read Clay Risen’s piece right here…

I’ve always been more of a Slate guy, but I’m glad I popped over to Salon and caught this primer on Sauvignon Blanc that reads as a good State Of The Grape address. The piece covers the grape’s major wine regions and recommends notable producers of the stuff in a bright, crisp editorial that’s cheery [...]

“There’s this study they did this time…”, we’ve all been told.
A study where professional wine people were given both red and white wines to sample, blind, and all at the same temperature.  The legend goes that most people couldn’t even tell the difference between red and white wine, never mind varietal, vintage, etc.
Some say it [...]

Awesome, if for no other reason than I’ve been waiting for months to use that shot I took of “Good Chianti” in Vermont last year…
Yup, Slate.com’s resident wine guy, Mike Steinberger, gives you good reason to give Chianti another go!
Chianti is often described as a great pizza wine, which could be construed as a backhanded [...]

Photo Credit: sashafatcat
I generally despise used bookstores. Don’t get me wrong, I love bookstores and idling away for hours in them, but used bookstores frustrate me when there doesn’t seem to be any particular angle, focus or direction. And as romantic as those dusty, over-crowded-piles-and-piles-of-books-in-a-dank-old-room places are, you can never find anything [...]

In their always fun How did you get that f*&%ing awesome job? department, ReadyMade Magazine recently profiled 30-year-old Santa Ynez Winemaker from Jonata, Matt Dees.
Check it out by popping right over here…

Keith Wallace posts a think-piece on Virtual Wineries in America.
The big quote:
Of the top 30 wine brands in the United States, not a single one of them grows, produces and bottles its own wines. For the brands doing big volume, the formula is: buy tankers of bulk juice, and slap a label on it. Those [...]

Matthew Latkiewicz returns to McSweeney’s today for the 15th installment of his wine (…ish) column “Stained Teeth”.
“Wine Reviews of Stuff That Isn’t Wine” offers such gems as:
2009 Fall Foliage Season, Western MA
Offers pale-straw yellow, Sprite-can green, but much less raspberry in the color than one would hope for. The ‘09 air weaves together wood stove [...]

In the excellent Freakonomics Blog on the New York Times Website, every now and then there’s something cool and relevant for us in the wine world, as we’ve discussed here before.
I’ve been slowly working on a post where I’ll discuss the wine judging I’ve done in the last couple weeks, both for Cornucopia and for [...]

The Province checks in with Farmstead Wines‘ Anthony Nicalo to see what he does with his Sundays…