Michael Fagin looks at the weather trends in Walla Walla and how climate change might impact wine production in the future. After a four hour drive over the Cascades Mountains, coming from Seattle, you arrive to Walla Walla passing Washington’s other wine regions of …
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David Howell is one of the authorities on Napa geology and he explains how Napa Valley is a very young wine valley, with its geological formation only happening in the last few million years and creating three distinctive soil types. In this exclusive 80 Harvests interview, the geologist and …
What’s the difference between Oak Knoll, Calistoga and Carneros? Winemaker Mia Klein takes us through a terroir tour of some of her top Napa wine regions as we taste a couple of her Selene Wines and talk about dirt, shoots and leaves in this …
Bob Foley has been a consultant winemaker across Napa since the 70s and has witnessed a lot of changes in the valley, which he talks about in this interview from his own vineyard where he makes Robert Foley wines. Amanda Barnes also interviews him …
Steve Matthiasson is one of the most in-demand viticulturalists in Napa. He has worked all over the valley, and consults for wineries in both the hills and valley floor, as well as some other projects in California. Amanda Barnes interviews him on the viticulture …
There are some drives you know you’ll always remember, and my drive through Washington’s wine region is one of them. The fact I was driving around in a ridiculously oversized car certainly helped (why renting a 9-seater SUV worked out cheapest, I’ll never understand…) …
Bob Betz is one of the best known figures of Washington wine and has been involved in the industry since it started to reach the world stage over 40 years ago. After training in Europe, Bob worked for 28 years at Washington’s foremost producer …
The world’s first wine blogger, Alder Yarrow is a wine enthusiast who lives in San Francisco, California, where he runs his wine blog part time while working full time in the tech industry. He started Vinography in 2004 as a personal project and it has become …
New York, New York. Vineyards aren’t the first image to spring to mind, right? Well, that’s what we were heading for – New York’s wine region. And we actually decided to take in two: the Finger Lakes and Long Island. We’ve got lots of …
We started our North America tour in the continent’s mecca of wine: California. Our area of focus was the most renowned AVA of the US, Napa Valley, however we couldn’t resist bringing you some more reports from around the state. Here’s some of the …