Organic Wine Journal

Evan Spingarn is out to change Lyle’s mind about Rosé. Does calling him the George Bernard Shaw of wine reviewers help out? Watch this review of the Bisson Golfo Del Tigullio Ciliegiolo Rosé 2009 and find out.

What is this bottle doing on the Orange Wine list, and why can its perfect food match wind you up in prison? Lyle Fass welcomes Evan Spingarn, of NYC’s Tangled VIne Bar, to the No Spoof Zone to find out.

It’s Alice Feiring’s turn at 32 Days of Natural Wine. Here’s what she has to say: This all leads me to believe that critics of natural wines are either in willful denial or holding out for set of standards complete with loop holes that will allow spoof to masquerade as real. No matter what the [...]

Organic Wine Journal contributor Lyle Fass just posted his article for 32 Days of Natural Wine: David taught me, most importantly, something that I think is the core concept of natural wine for me, which is the use of cultured vs. inoculated yeast. Every time we would taste with salespeople, no matter what wine, that [...]

Gewurtztraminers are love it or hate it wines. They can be flamboyant, but which of these wines is more Liberace and which is more Ted Allen? Lyle tastes two vintages of the Binner Gewurtztraminer Cuvée Beatrice.

From the Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard website: Following 30 years of organic production of English wines under Soil Association organic standards here at Sedlescombe, the process of converting to Demeter accreditation under standards set by the Biodynamic Association was started in Spring 2010. As we were already operating according to EU 2092/91 regulation, a conversion period [...]

Organic Wine Journal contributor Amy Atwood just posted her article for 32 Days of Natural Wine: Okay, so by now I knew a thing or two about selling wine. But over the past few years my personal wine palate had changed. I could no longer stomach the big, oaky wines that so many new world [...]

Can having an army background help you review wines? We’re not sure but we think Lyle has fallen in love. Hear what he has to say about the Binner Muscat Hinterburg 2002.