Above: grapes being “raisined” for the production of Valpolicella wines. After a Twitter user tagged me in the tweet below, I immediately sprang to action. There was no time to lose! Hi @DoBianchi ! Tis the season to post on social media about appassimento, which begs addition to your ITA-ENG vocab list 😅 — Alexandra […]
Above: Vesper Wine owners and founders Aisha Savage-Shirley and James Oliver. Late last week, I had the good fortune to get on a Zoom call (below) with James Oliver (above) who opened Houston’s newest wine shop, Vesper Wine, earlier this year. Licensed as a winery, Vesper Wine is located in a part of Houston that […]
Last week, leading California wine educator Deborah Parker Wong — and the new editor for the Slow Wine Guide to the Wines of North America — talked to me on Zoom about the guide and how she and her team of editors are putting the 2021 edition together even as they face the challenges of the […]
Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman at home in Boulder, Colorado. Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman, owner of the Boulder Wine Merchant, may be best known among wine lovers across the country for his Boulder Burgundy Festival. The gathering would have celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. But some in the wine trade will remember that the early […]
Tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. CST (9 a.m. EST) I’ll be speaking to my colleague Natalie Wang in Hong Kong about how the Chinese wine trade is recovering (image via Natalie’s Facebook). Yesterday, my client Ethica Wines published a shortlist of COVID-19 resources for wine professionals that I put together. Check it out here. Another […]
Happy Holidays, everyone! The song in the video above is from Parzen Family Singers’ NEW album, “Day After Yesterday,” now out on BandCamp! The girls and I co-wrote the first track, “Why Can’t It Be Christmas (Every Day of the Year).” I fed them the title lyric and a backing track. And then set them […]
“Venice Floods Because of Highest Tide in 50 Years,” according to a report published two hours ago by the New York Times. “The mayor called for a state of emergency and the closing of all schools after the Italian city was submerged under ‘acqua alta,’ an exceptionally high tide.” See the live video from national […]
Super Tuscans aren’t really my thing but I was happy to taste these wines for an old friend who works as a publicist in the New York wine trade. The wines were very good. Not my style but very well made, balanced, and tasty. The flagship wine, Monteti, just needs some bottle aging to integrate […]
Happy holidays, everyone! Merry Christmas! Love, the Parzen family
Tracie shot the video above as we protested the Confederate Memorial of the Wind in Orange, Texas yesterday. The man ranting at us was one of just a handful of people who expressed their disapproval of our protest. The overwhelming number of passersby gave us the thumbs up or stopped to share a kind word. […]
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