Phylloxera: The Scourge of the Wine World
Leaf grapes phylloxera Phylloxera: The Scourge of the Wine World or How a Louse Almost Killed Wine “Scourge: a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering” (Oxford Languages) So maybe you are reading this post as a result of the teaser from my post on AVAs? If so thank you, science is fun…
January 21, 2022
What is an AVA and Why Do I Care?
Do you want to become an educated consumer of wine? Then knowing your AVAs is a great first step: AVA stands for American Viticultural Area and defines the geographic region where a specific vineyard is planted. Geek out on the details below, so you can make sense of the hundreds of wines on the store…
January 11, 2022
Where Does Wine Start? In the Earth!
The Dirt on Oregon Wine “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care…
January 3, 2022
Let’s Talk Terroir
Wine is an expression of a place and time, and when combined with the natural aspects of the vineyard such as water, sunlight, soil, and climate, we begin to understand a wine’s terroir. To understand terroir we have to go beyond the grape variety or the viticulture (farming) practice and recognize the unique environmental conditions…
August 2, 2019
The Components of Wine
So, what is wine? We know it is a lovely juice from fermented fruit, but what components help to create this magical liquid? Just think WAASP… Water, Alcohol, Acid, Sugar and Phenolic compounds. Now, let’s chat more…. Water Wine is usually 80-9o% water. It usually comes mostly from the grapes, but water can be added…
June 28, 2019