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We got 3rd place this year is the US blind wine tasting championships!

M. Andrew Walker, Ph.D., appears to have found what he was looking for new varieties of grapes which resists a costly and persistent vine disease and produces grapes that turn into pretty good wine.

Here's an introduction to Loire wines in general, and the St-Nicholas-de-Bourgeil AOC in particular, with a focus on organic and biodynamic sparkling and still wines by Xavier Amirault.

Natalie McLean is an excellent teacher and has launched online courses. Sign up for a free wine pairing course.

This article was written 5 years ago! We are still providing a fabulous tour to the local wineries.

New Blog Post: It's Only Natural The new blog post is about a recent dinner in Brooklyn. I was out with four MS colleagues. For the last bottle of the evening, ...someone in the group decided to order the most expensive wine on the list, an Etna Rosso that was a natural wine. Once poured, the wine showed a tsunami of fingernail polish remover on the nose from EA and tasted like homemade cider still fermenting. Needless to say, a spirited discussion immediately ensued, or erupted, to be more precise. Read on. http://www.timgaiser.com/blog

We've been noticing that biodynamics is slowly becoming more main stream. More and more of the winemakers and vineyard owners we meet are growing biodynamicall...y or leaning this way. Here is our first step into a greater understanding of biodynamics. https://www.crushedgrapechronicles.com/digging-into-biodyn/ See more