Archive | Features RSS feed for this section
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
By Adam Morganstern - Sep 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
By Adam Morganstern - Sep 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...The Blur of Midsummer
By Barbara Shinn - Aug 17, 2010
Shinn Estate is in the first year of their organic certification process. Barbara Shinn shares her progress with us. July 3, 2010 I dug up the biodynamic horn prep 500 this morning. This year the compost took an extra month to come to fruition. I had to be patient as I kept the horns buried [...]
Continue reading...Organic Wine – What The Labels Really Mean
By Adam Morganstern - Aug 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...Alice Feiring on Natural Wine
By Adam Morganstern - Jul 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
By Adam Morganstern - Jul 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...Amy Atwood: Portrait of a Natural Wine Seller as a Young Woman
By Adam Morganstern - Jul 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
By Adam Morganstern - Jul 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 [...]
Continue reading...What went wrong with the EU organic wine certification?
By Anna Krzywoszynska - Jul 12, 2010
We are back to square one with regards to a European organic wine certification. While it was hoped that this year organic winemakers will be able to label their wines organic, the negotiations over the acceptable levels of sulphur dioxide (SO2) use fell through, and the draft legislation was withdrawn. The reason behind it is [...]
Continue reading...
By Adam Morganstern - Sep 2, 2010
Features