Enotria Guide – iPhone app
You can study wine books all you like, but it isn’t until the first time you try saying St-Estèphe out loud, and draw blank stares from around the room, that you realize you might want to learn how to pronounce some of these regions and wine terms properly. Enter the Enotria iPhone app. A simple [...]
Continue reading...10 Best Organic Wines – Decanter Magazine
September 1, 2010
We’re a little skeptical of any “best of” list when it comes to wine, but Decanter Magazine has selected their 10 Best Organic Wines from their Decanter World Wine Awards 2010. If you’d like to see their selections you can find the list here.
Continue reading...A Greener Champagne Bottle – New York Times
September 1, 2010
An article in today’s New York Times Business Section talks about Champagne switching to lighter bottles to reduce their carbon footprint. The Champagne industry has embarked on a drive to cut the 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide it emits every year transporting billions of tiny bubbles around the world. Producing and shipping accounts for [...]
Continue reading...Organic Wine – What The Labels Really Mean
August 12, 2010
Our friends at Organic Vintners published a small primer on organic wine labels and what they really mean at Mile Hi Green. Many consumers don’t connect that wine is an agricultural product manufactured from grapes. Like most agricultural products, conventional wine grapes are treated with harmful chemicals to deal with pests, viruses, weeds and fungi. [...]
Continue reading...Steak Salad with Tomatoes, Parmesan, and Dijon Vinaigrette
Here is our second recipe from 100 Perfect Pairings: Small Plates to Enjoy with Wines You Love that author Jill Silverman Hough wanted to share with our readers for summer. Steak Salad with Tomatoes, Parmesan, and Dijon Vinaigrette Pair with Zinfandel From “100 Perfect Pairings: Small Plates to Enjoy with Wines You Love” by Jill [...]
Continue reading...Alice Feiring on Natural Wine
July 20, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Lyle Fass: Let Mikey Try It
July 19, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard Goes Biodynamic
July 15, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Amy Atwood: Portrait of a Natural Wine Seller as a Young Woman
July 15, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Morgan Harris: Long Live Natural Wine
July 13, 2010
Morgan Harris, who writes the wine blog Technically Drinking and works at The Tangled Vine in NYC, offered this contribution to Saignée’s 32 Days of Natural Wine: As someone who works in a wine bar, I sell wine on a bottle-by-bottle, glass-by-glass basis, not by the case or by the truckload. Not that there’s anything [...]
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