Category Archives: winemaking

TasteCamp in Long Island: I AM drinking merlot

By winecase | Published: May 7, 2009
I can say one thing about last weekend’s TasteCamp East, organized by Lenn Thompson for a group of about 15 bloggers (see the whole list here, with very personal notes from Dale Cruse) who enthusiastically went around the vineyards of Long Island. I’ve never had so much merlot in so little time. Actually, I can say [...]
Also posted in Quebec, United States, producers, wine blog | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Wine Blogging Wednesday 55: North vs South

By winecase | Published: February 23, 2009
I’m so stoked about hosting the 55th edition of the Wine Blogging Wednesday. It’s a nice number, too. A kind of symmetry, even, since I joined in on this collective tasting event for WBW 44. As a Québécois frequently discussing wines with my American wine blogger friends, I thought that the perfect theme for “my” Wine [...]
Also posted in Canada, United States, Wine Blogging Wednesday | Tagged , , | 56 Comments

In the California Vineyards: A quick stop at Alpha Omega

By winecase | Published: January 24, 2009
I’m finally getting around to blogging about the wineries I visited in California, last fall, after the Wine Bloggers Conference. Maybe I needed to let all that wine tasting and winery visiting steep for a while. Or maybe I just got very busy when I returned from California and never got around to it. Or [...]
Also posted in California, red wine, tasting, white wine | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

It's not easy being green: a post about Bordeaux, carbon and biodynamics

By winecase | Published: November 25, 2008
Two relatively unrelated bits of reading got me going on the whole question of wine and the environment, yesterday. The first one was a  Decanter News item about the Bordeaux wine industry’s Carbon initiative, and the steps it was proposing to curb the region’s greenhouse gas emissions (thanks to Tim, from Winecast, for tweeting it). [...]
Also posted in Bordeaux, biodynamics, organic wine, philosophy, vineyard | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

California Wine all tastes the same? Says who?

By winecase | Published: November 6, 2008
Well, finally back to blogging. After an intense weekend at the Wine Bloggers Conference, followed by four full days of running around Sonoma and Napa – and Fairfield, and Berkeley and San Francisco – and then returning to a new position at the newspaper in Quebec City, and mulling over about twenty different potential post [...]
Also posted in California, United States, red wine, white wine | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments