A wine blog by Susannah Gold
This week's grape variety is Fumin. It is the last variety that starts with the letter "F." Amazing to me to note, but I have written 111 of these sorts of posts through the years. Italy has such an endless number of grape varieties, there is always something new to learn. Fumin is a variety... Continue Reading →
Thinking of all the members of the wine industry and people who live in the Napa Valley who were impacted by the Earthquake. Hoping everyone will see their way to a better day in the near future. Very lucky that no one lost their lives. I’m posting this blog piece that I wrote last year about Napa as a way of showing solidarity and interest in the region and its fate.
“The Napa Valley, Then and Now: The Evoltion of Grapegrowing and Winemaking” was the title of a seminar I took this past summer at the Society of Wine Educators Conference in Orlando, Florida with Barry Wiss. With the cold weather outside, I am channeling summer and warmth and so Napa came to mind. The seminar was interesting but what I thought was most remarkable was how far the association has come that they are now showing the diversity of terroir, grapes grown and attention to microclimate variations.
I tended to think of Napa as a whole, homogenous region, with a warm climate. I was quite wrong apparently. This above all was made plain in this particular seminar. In the past, I have taken the Napa Rocks seminars about the soil variation but little had been discussed about climate, another fundamental part of what can be defined as “terroir.”
Terroir affects…
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