The Blog "Engaging the Senses" includes thoughts on wine, food, travel and art from James Beard Award-winning writer, WSET educator and travel photographer Lyn Farmer
For many, 10 a.m. is a great time for a coffee break, but when Aurelio Montes, Jr., called me and suggested we get together at 10 to taste "something fresh," coffee was nowhere on the menu. His idea of fresh was a collection of fascinating new releases from one of my favorite wineries and an opportunity to catch up with one of South America's most interesting winemakers. All very tasteful, of course.
Read MoreWines of Chile just named Emiliana the country's Winery of the Year, signaling a broad acceptance of biodynamic and organic farming in the country's wine industry. For us consumers it is a reminder that great red and white wine can still go green, and that there is more to wine that what we can measure in the soil.
Read MoreMOVI is a group of winemakers who make it a part of their mission statement to "make wines with passion." This movement of independent vintners taking root in Chile is passionately making some of the best wine on the planet - meet the makers and, virtually at least, taste the wine, in Lyn's most recent post.
Read MoreThe myth of the creative individual starving for her or his art, the idea that good work only comes out of struggle, has been perpetrated for centuries. Is it also a necessity for the art of wine? Must a grape vine struggle to realize its greatest destiny? Poppycock! sort of. And here's why, complete with a motivational plant video.
Read MoreThe French refer to a vine's rootstock as it's pied or "foot," and it takes only the slightest bit of literary license to believe that, like a person, you don't understand a wine until you've walked in its vines' shoes, or at least where the vine puts its "foot." Today, I walk with the vines in the vineyard's of Chilean organic winery Nativa.
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