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The marketing department has a thin grasp of ecology.
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Print is sweet.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Font matters.
August 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
June 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I’m thrilled to learn I won 2nd Place in the 2025 World Food Photography Awards in the category Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year / Places.

Many thanks to the judges and organizers for this honor! Find all winning images at www.worldfoodphotographyawards.com/finalists-ga...
May 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I get it.
May 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that I've been selected as finalist in the World Food Photography Awards 2025. 📸
Winners will be announced next week. Fingers crossed!
#photography #foodphotography
May 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
May 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sangiovese, the modern vinous king of Tuscany, is an alloyed grape, the offspring of a crossing of Ciliegiolo, which appeared here as early as the Middle Ages, and Calabrese di Montenuovo, introduced from the southern reaches of the Italian peninsula.

Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
✍🏼 Happy to learn I’ve been longlisted again in both writing categories in the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards.

🏆 Shortlists will be announced in July and winners in September.

🥂 Many thanks to the judges and organizers for this honor.

#writing #winewriting #longform #shortform
April 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Just a few hours old. Those legs! My newest neighbor.
April 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Exhibit A, Exhibit B
April 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Exhibit A, Exhibit B
#handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
500+ in tiny Hanover, NH!
#handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Wine should be as simple as possible. You should not use every process just because you have the option to use more than 300 additives. I prefer to drink water.”
— Joško Gravner

Read more in “The Gravner Notebook” terroirreview.com/2022/09/05/t...
April 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Pine warbler. Early arrival!
April 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Self portrait.
March 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Eons ago, Piedmont was under the sea. When waters receded, they left behind 6km of sand, marl, silt, clay, sandstone, gypsum, calcium, all now layered and mixed, compacted and uplifted. Piedmont is unquestionably a wine region that needs soil experts.

Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t...
March 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Three Chiara Boschis wines, all ripe, fresh, and drinkable. I admired the Langhe Nebbiolo’s complexity and learned a new word, “baroleggia,” or Barolo-like, for a Barolo-style Nebbiolo from Langhe. (And it’s roughly half the price.)

Find all 65 recommended wines at terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t...
March 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“What do you do at the winery?” I asked.

He smiled modestly. “A little of everything. I clean the floors, I work in shipping, I do sales, the vines…”

“So, you also work in production?” I asked.

“Yes,” he said. “I am the winemaker.”

Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t...

#vino #nebbiolo
March 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social has created a four-page sparrow guide for confused birders like me.
#birding #birders

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March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Dolcetto is a simple wine, but in some cases can tell a story. We don’t want to make something strange, rude, loud. We look for simplicity and balance.” — Giulio Abrigo

Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t...
#wine #dolcetto
March 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
How's your day going?
March 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sugaring season.
March 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Genius. (I used "writer," my profession.)

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March 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM