The winemaker dinner at the Burnt Hill Solstice Festival in Maryland
I’m a news junkie, although, honestly, the actual news is unbearable these days. However, I can still escape to the world of wine news as there is little to terrify me there — other than the climate disasters around the world. The Supreme Court threw some salt on that wound this week.
I start the day with a cup of coffee and a deep dive into my RSS reader, which I’ve curated over the many years I’ve been using RSS feeds to focus on all things wine. Wine growing, wine making, wine selling, you name it.
The big news all over the wine Internet this week was the acquisition of the Joseph Phelps Winery by LVMH. Phelps is one of those pioneer boutique wineries that helped make Napa’s name in the seventies but eventually bloated over the years to a reported production of 750,000 bottles.
Now, while that sounds like a lot of bottles in the wine business, many would still consider that a small winery. Still, that many bottles at that price range are quite a few bottles.
With Covid restrictions lifted, we are back on the road again bringing our Troon Vineyard wines to markets across the country. Once again, I have been hitting the wine shops to introduce them to our wines. When reading the news of the Phelps sale, it occurred to me I could not remember the last time
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