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The Sonoma County Grape Growers Association is lobbying to impose a half percent sales tax on wine grapes to fund an expansion of their marketing efforts. Currently the SCGGA spends $150K on marketing, but with the tax the SCGGA will up its marketing budget to around $750K. Our dollars would apparently go toward building brand [...]

Are You Exceedingly Good At Expectorating?

As a companion to the previous post on making wine standards, and in an attempt to further promote the Hospices of Sonoma Pinot event later this month, below are excerpts from a fun article on spitting when wine tasting.
Note: In this post I’m going to quote liberally from David Darlington’s hilarious article “The Spitting Image: [...]

Wincast focus on Russian River wines

Tim over at Winecast is featuring wines (mostly pinot) from local Russian River producers and highlights two of my favorites at Moshin and J.
Moshin’s Lot 4 is especially good. The nose on the Lot 4 is so awesome, so floral and fruity, it makes you want to strap the glass to your head and [...]

Make Your Own Pinot Aroma Standards

The hardest part of becoming a “pinot expert” will always be finding the money or the time to taste a lot of wine. One way you can help yourself along is by focusing on tasting just pinot for a time and training your nose to detect the aromas common to the cultivar. Knowing the basic [...]

Cracking Open Enologix’s Black Box

“The phenols from grapes (cinnamates, anthocyanins, tannins, etc.) and their derivatives are the most important group of compounds distinguishing sound wines of different types and qualities…” - Grape and Wine Phenolics; Background and Prospects, V.L. Singleton, Professor UC Davis
Last Thursday at UCD, grad student Kirsten Skogerson presented the results of her research into predictive modeling [...]