Watch Somm Sessions “Penfolds California Collection”
Gillian Ballance, MS Treasury Wine Estates and Lars Leicht, VP education for The Somm Journal & The Tasting Panel explore wines from Penfolds new collection.
Gillian Ballance, MS Treasury Wine Estates and Lars Leicht, VP education for The Somm Journal & The Tasting Panel explore wines from Penfolds new collection.
Crafting a fine wine—or refined spirit—is part earthbound farming, part production prowess. But are they equal parts? Is it the job of the winemaker or distiller to simply not mess
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wine, and thankfully great wine, is made today around the world. There is a diversity of flavor and style that come from one-of-a-kind places, unique landscapes, soils, micro-climates, and traditions
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Terroir is a magical word that should never be literally translated. As a concept, it speaks volumes. Terroir encompasses soil composition, solar radiation, wind exposure, diurnal shift, slope of
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Where you stand on a subject often is determined by where you sit. The wine world as we know it started in the Northern Hemisphere, but winemakers on
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Wine is made in the vineyard,” is one of the most common axioms in winemaking. If that’s the case, why all the fuss about fancy fermenters and oak
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gillian Ballance, MS Treasury Wine Estates and Lars Leicht, VP education for The Somm Journal & The Tasting Panel discuss Petite Sirah and interview Stags’ Leap winemaker and general manager Christophe Paubert.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] by Lars Leicht As it often does in Italian wine country, a lively debate has recently begun between the traditionalists and innovators of Piedmont. This one is centered on
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Though they did not write it into the Declaration of Independence, Constitution or Bill of Rights, our nation’s founding fathers had wine on their minds for the grand scheme of
