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Josh Bergström

Oregon's 2008 Vintage Conditions May Push the Envelope, Again

Posted: 11:20 AM ET, 09/10/08

Josh Bergström is blogging for Wine Spectator as part of our 2008 Harvest Winemakers' Blog. To read more of his posts, visit that blog.

As I traveled up California’s Highway 101 through Santa Rosa last week, I couldn’t help but notice all of the deeply colored fruit hanging on tired vines, the picking bins stacked in vineyard rows and the harvest trucks with juicy payloads cruising back and forth between busy wineries. Read more

James Suckling

Remembering Claret

Posted: 04:15 PM ET, 09/09/08

I was thinking about my trip to Bordeaux last week, and how many elegant and beautiful wines I tasted as well as consumed. The latter action is the most important one for me to remember.

Sure, I was tasting three or four dozen wines a day in my tasting room at the hotel Les Sources de Caudelie in the Pessac-Leognan region. Read more

James Laube

Patience Rewarded as Pace Slows for 2008

Posted: 01:57 PM ET, 09/09/08

Last week’s heat wave-induced grape picking frenzy seems like a distant memory now that temperatures in Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino dipped back into the tolerable range over the weekend. This morning it was downright chilly, and the trees and their yellowing leaves are signaling the onset of fall. Read more

Brian Loring

2008 Harvest

Posted: 01:44 PM ET, 09/09/08

Brian Loring is now blogging for Wine Spectator as part of our 2008 Harvest Winemakers' Blog. To read more of his posts, visit that blog.

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2008 Harvest

Mi Bins Es Su Bins

Posted: 12:28 PM ET, 09/09/08

Posted by Brian Loring

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your vineyards, though you can't pick your friends’ vineyards—but it turns out you CAN pick with your friends’ bins! And you can also borrow your friend’s intros. Read more

Bruce Sanderson

What a Difference a Year Makes

Posted: 10:58 AM ET, 09/09/08

I have written and blogged about dry German Rieslings in the past. It’s true that these wines have come a long way from the thin, tart versions I tried in the mid-80s while living in Germany.

So what’s different now? A year. Specifically, the 2007 vintage. Read more

2008 Harvest

The Safeway Approach to Determining Ripeness

Posted: 06:01 PM ET, 09/08/08

Posted by Adam Lee

I was fascinated to read James Laube’s blog this week, Chime in On What’s Overripe, and the subsequent comments by readers and a couple of winemakers alike. Read more

Harvey Steiman

Transparency

Posted: 12:14 PM ET, 09/08/08

We wine tasters constantly reach for the right words to describe what we're drinking. Fully understanding that casual observers truly believe we are either pretentious or nuts, I try to keep it real as much as I can.

Sometimes I latch onto a word because it seems to reflect exactly what I'm finding in the wines. Read more

James Laube

Chime In On What's Overripe

Posted: 05:22 PM ET, 09/05/08

Here’s a topic for everyone: “I'm new to wine collecting,” writes Jeffrey, “and still trying to get my arms around some of these issues. What are examples of big, overripe, fruit forward, etc. ‘faddish’ wines? Is Joseph Phelps Insignia in this category? The Martinelli/Turley (Marcassin) Pinot Noirs?”

Welcome to wine’s hottest button. Read more

James Laube

Heat Is On For Harvest 2008

Posted: 04:48 PM ET, 09/04/08

The wait card for harvest 2008 has been pulled out of the deck for many winemakers.

Hot weather the past few days in Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino, with forecasts yet of more to come, has taken away winemakers’ option of waiting to see which way the weather will break and whether to let the grapes hang, in hopes of milder weather, or pick. Read more

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