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The welcome surprise at the Wine Bloggers’ Conference #wbc12…Portuguese wines!
Posted on September 4, 2012 3 Comments
Portuguese wines were a huge surprise to me the first time I tried them and continue to be whenever I initiate others into this small but grand wine world of Portuguese wines. Portugal has more to offer than just Port wines, they have amazing still wines a.k.a regular wines, that will blow you away! Having […]
Ignite Presentations…Wine Bloggers’ Conference 2012
Posted on August 24, 2012 3 Comments
So, I was asked to give a little presentation, 20 slides, 5 seconds each…wait, that is what I practiced for…in the end it is 20 slides, 15 seconds each on following your dreams. It turns out that having extra time is better than running out of time. This is a little bit about me and […]
A kinder, gentler way to destem grapes at Hawks View Cellars in Oregon
Posted on August 17, 2012
For all those wine geeks, ie. Enologists, like me, who love a bit of enology technology, I have included what I believe, is the wave of the future in terms of destemmers. This is a German EuroSelect destemmer that uses rotative rubber hands to de-stem the grapes in a kinder, gentler way. As part of […]
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