By Joe Roberts What makes Sicily’s Etna the forerunner of the “Volcanic Wine” craze. If you’ve spent any time at a wine bar lately, you’ll undoubtedly have come across the phrase “Volcanic Wine.” Ostensibly, when wine insiders use that phrase, they’re referring to wines made from grapes that grow in volcanic soils (these include, for …
By Jess Helfand As more and more Georgian amber wine becomes available in the US, Jess Helfand offers three simple guidelines for pairing these tea-like whites with food. Skin-contact white wine, also known as orange wine, is all the rage, cropping up on wine lists and wine shop shelves worldwide. But the technique of fermenting …
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One of the things I love most about the wine industry is that it is steeped in history and tradition. Like a steadfast friend that you can count on. But, the other thing I love about the wine industry is that it is constantly evolving and looking toward the future. And in today’s episode, the …
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Today I’m honored to introduce you to Alicia Towns Franken, a veteran of the hospitality industry and Board Member and Mentor at Wine Unify. In this episode I tap her vast experience to discuss a wide range of career opportunities as well as her dedication to advancing diversity at Wine Unify. Be sure to stay …
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by Joe Roberts A closer look at some of the more intriguing Villages added to NVWA’s Côtes du Rhône online course If you’re anything like me (a carbon-based life-from consisting mostly of water who happens to have an insatiable infatuation with all things wine-related), chances are you’ve imbibed a fair share of tasty Côtes du …
Introducing our new Career Series—articles penned by longtime industry expert Karen Wetzel, exploring a wide variety of topics, industry insights, guidance, and tools to help you find your career in wine
Geralyn Brostrom is an instructor in the Wine MBA program at the Wine Business Institute at SSU. She’s also the Developer of the Italian Wine Professional certification program and co-founder of the website ItalianWineCentral.com. And, as if that weren’t enough, she’s a consultant, public speaker, and the author of well-known books – the Business of …
Taking a deep dive into the NVWA’s website membership benefits By Joe Roberts Generally, I’m not a fan of spending money on, well, pretty much anything (our current economic inflation battle has been a particularly difficult pill to swallow, requiring me to consume copious quantities of wine to help me through). So when I was …
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by Patrick Comiskey It’s useful to think of Costières de Nîmes as a ‘betweener.’ This appellation in the south of France, situated in the Gard département, borders the Rhône River and delta on its southern flank, and its proximity to Avignon and southern Rhône appellations makes it spiritually “Rhône,” as do its wines, which are …
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As we think about the smells we describe when we sniff a wine, we can’t dial down to single aroma molecules—instead, we have to think about groups of molecules working together.
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