by Justin Wuycheck | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
What Is a Good Wine? Oh no, this question. One of those, “Why is the sky blue? Or, “What is happiness?” -type questions that turn into sweaty, 10,000-word essays. Fighting my instincts, I’ll try to keep this much shorter. A wine is an unfeeling item minimal used for...
by Justin Wuycheck | Nov 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Semantics: Winemaker vs. Vintner In English, what do you call someone who makes wine? Easy, “winemaker;” and darn it, it’s been that way for centuries since Middle English so don’t go complaining… Ah, there’s a peccadillo with your Pinot, you say? “Winemaker” has...
by Justin Wuycheck | Nov 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
It's All About the "Winemaker" Again Trends come and go and come again. I remember my earliest days discovering fine wine, pedalling a bike by the clays and sands of Pomerol, or eyeing the Günzian gravel of Pauillac. Touring various châteaux, our hosts credited these...
by Justin Wuycheck | Feb 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Uncle Jozef Král – The Root Where do top Pálava Hills makers like Gala, and Nepraš & Co. find their base? Certainly not in the Communist cooperative of yesteryear. Yes, they look towards France or Germany, but they don’t bring in soil from those places. No, they...
by Justin Wuycheck | Mar 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Degustarium The door opens to a little girl tottering around a long table of blond, broad, raw wood, a group of 3 or four people sitting on similarly-styled benches, a couple working behind a simple bar, all the scene illuminated by low lamps hanging from an...
