Sustainability Spotlight: Trimbach, Tasting Time in a Bottle
What does Special Club Champagne mean? How do Champagnes get this designation? Find out more about these “treasures” and discover your next favorite bottle.
Entries by Andrea
IG Contest: Great Wines of the World, Napa Valley
Explore the place I’ve called home for more than a decade – Napa Valley! It is truly a special place with its Mediterranean climate, fascinating geology and stunning wines.
G-WOW: Napa Valley Deep Dive
Explore the place I’ve called home for more than a decade – Napa Valley! It is truly a special place with its Mediterranean climate, fascinating geology and stunning wines.
60 Second Sommelier: How to Open Sparkling Wine
This year, as many of you, I was so ready to say 👋 BYE BYE 👋 to 2020 with a bottle of bubbles—but(!), opening sparkling wine must be done with care! I’ll show you how in my latest episode of 60 Second Sommelier.
Thanksgiving Traditions: Turkey Two Ways
Rather like our American melting pot culture, our Thanksgiving turkey approach is a crazy quilt of inputs and experiments refined. And we’re not done! I’m also eager to gain more feedback and words of wisdom. But here are our must-dos.
60-Second Sommelier: Special Club Champagne
What does Special Club Champagne mean? How do Champagnes get this designation? Find out more about these “treasures” and discover your next favorite bottle.
Riesling: #1 in the Big Six Grapes
As a sommelier, I know what some consumers don’t love about Riesling – not knowing what you’re getting in terms of dryness or sweetness. Here’s a little help with that.
3 Decades of Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon
My tasting notes from an amazing 30-year retrospective tasting of Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon, with Naoko and Maya Dalla Valle and winemaker Andy Erickson.
Brooks Winery – Ageable Oregon
Oregon’s Brooks Winery produces structured, elegant and ageable Pinot Noirs and Rieslings. John and I were thrilled to get the chance to taste their 2002 Janus Pinot Noir (still a baby!), to add to our experience of having tasted some of their extraordinary older Rieslings. Meet Janie Brooks, the force behind these beautiful wines…
Wilson-Daniels 40th Anniversary
I have known Jack Daniels and his partner the late Win Wilson since my earliest days as a sommelier. It was my great honor to be the first recipient of the Wilson-Daniels Master Sommelier Scholarship when I was studying for that test, and to work on the sommelier team for the historic Domaine de la […]
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