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[Raw Epicurean] A Note About Wine : Raw Epicurean: When you are the type of person who attempts to be an educated consumer, the world of wine poses a challenging hurdle. The amounts of history and information surrounding wine are extremely complex, with hundreds and thousands of different producers and grape varietals to choose from- growing regions, climates, the list goes on.

[STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG] STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG » Blog Archive » California is not the ...: Helena, Oakville) go toe-to-toe, and then, of course, individual wineries do battle on the playing fields of the competitive market. So Paul is correct when he notes that the thousands of wineries in America do not “consort as a national wine industry.” Nor are they going to.

[The Pour] Ripeness Isn't All - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: I understand that California produces the majority of wines in the US, but it is worth pointing out that some US wine regions, like Long Island, make wines that are less ripe and more food friendly both by design and as a result of their climate. Many of these wines remain hard to get even in New York because distributors focus on European and California wines, and frankly they don’t have enough land under vine to compete with the volume that California produces, but they are increasingly found in some top NY restaurants and can also be ordered directly from the vineyards (which are worth a visit).

[WineLoversPage.com] 30 Second Wine Advisor: My top wine values of 2005 ...: I'll refer you to my tasting report in our WineLovers Community if you'd like to read my New Year's Eve report on two rosé sparkling wines - a pink Champagne and a good new Mexico bubbly - and a memorable aged Port, Kopke Colheita 1948.

[Reign of Terroir] Nicolas Quillé of Pacific Rim, Interview | Reign of Terroir: A peculiarity of the French system is that each school specializes in its local specialty (Dijon - Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Reims - Champagne making”¦). After my Master’s in Burgundy I went for another year to get a specialization in Champagne winemaking and Champagne laws as I thought I might end up in Champagne making bubbly (My father works for Laurent Perrier Champagne).

[JancisRobinson.com] A progress report on biodynamic wines in France | Tasting Notes ...: In the film Mondovino she is quoted as saying, 'I planted vines when my husband died. Ever since then, all this love inside me, I give it to the vines.

[The Good Wine Guru] The Top 10 Wine Movies | The Good Wine Guru: The sheer amount of wine in this cellar is mind boggling, and makes one kind of jealous. The movie ends with Ingrid Bergman being poisoned with coffee (seems kind of a shame given the amount of wine in this movie), but there’s no denying the love of wine present in this movie.

[The Pour] Do Ratings Rate? - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: But I do know that I enjoy certain taste sensations and the more common ones are at least somewhat reliable enough to suggest what a wine may taste like. I can’t say this with any certainty because I haven’t actually tracked or measured this kind of thing but I seem to be more often disappointed when buying based solely on a number rather than words like “chocolate,”

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