Wine
Love Children
From the Ampelography Reminder Department: You may have missed it, but a study published Mid-December in the online Biology Letters, revisited an earlier paper examining the varied offspring of Gouais Blanc and Pinot (usually and probably Noir, but sometimes…
The Improbable Vineyard
There are many impressive things about the Calera Wine Company. The quality and longevity of the wines is probably the most noted. But driving around the vineyards perched atop Mt. Harlan, its very existence - the unlikely birth of the…
Pacherenc on the Brain
It started, as it often does, with a mention in a piece read on Eric Asimov‘s "The Pour" ; it ended, as it almost never does, with a bottle of Alain Brumont's Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh Sec. Suddenly, I was seeing…
More Natural Wines
Movia is Ales Kristancic. He is a dynamic figure well known by much of the wine world, especially here in San Francisco where he is a regular visitor. He is a Tazmanian Devil of a spokesperson for biodynamics and natural…
Featured Producers
The featured producers for Natural Wine Week will be Unti Vineyards from the Dry Creek Valley and The Natural Process Alliance.
From Unti Vineyards we will be pouring the Cuvee Foudre, Syrah and Zinfandel by…
Natural Wine Week
During the week of August 24th through August 30th, Nopa will be taking part in the first annual Natural Wine Week here in San Francisco. We will be featuring two California producers who we feel are adhering to the principals…
Storybook Mountain Vineyards
I love the northern end of the Napa Valley. I imagine it is more what the entire valley was like 20 years ago. It feels homegrown. Perhaps it is the geography – the way the valley narrows as the mountains…
Sky Vineyards
If you go, the quickest way from the Bay Area to Napa's Sky Vineyards is actually to approach from the Sonoma side of the Mayacaymas mountains. There's a certain futility in racing here, however, as it quickly becomes apparent that…
Soul Wine
There are so many factors to know and consider and learn about in wine these days. The variety, the vintage, the vineyard, the plot within the vineyard, the producer, the application or absence of oak and the type if used,…
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