Why is it that you can drink the same varietal from the same winery grown on the same piece of land, and it tastes so different from year to year? What makes a particular winery’s 2009 Tempranillo so vastly different…
The short answer? Everything. OK, so there’s also the place the grapes are grown, the kind of grape, how those grapes are processed, and who’s doing the winemaking, but the lesser-celebrated art of trellising is one of the most crucial…
Believe it or not, but there are wine grape growing regions in the world—Bordeaux and Burgundy included—where the threat of too much rain trumps the threat of too little. I know! Not so in parched California, where drought has dragged…