Tag Archives: American wine
Eric Arnold
Today Lot18 is offering the first wine ever to be labeled with the Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak AVA – the newly recognized region straddles the Sonoma-Mendocino border in California. An AVA is an American Viticultural Area, as defined by the U.S. federal government – but, let’s be honest, not everything Uncle Sam stamps its seal on is particularly noteworthy. So how big a deal is it for an AVA to be established? [Read more...]
Katherine Ramos
A long time ago, a tiny insect nearly destroyed every grape vine in Europe. Not quite so long ago, it almost did the same in Northern California. Its ravenous appetite terrorized wineries and would forever change the way grapes are… [Read more...]