Musings on Minerals and Metaphors

Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate is based on 12 feature articles published over the years in the magazine The...

Alex Maltman

Madeira: Seeking a Place in the Modern Age

Around the hour-and-a-half mark of the flight from Lisbon to the island of Madeira, the plane begins its descent...

Miquel Hudin

Tasting/La Cata

We have a new staff training guide, available in both English and Spanish, on tasting! Learn how to get started...

A History of Winery Consolidation in America

In 2008, Cyril Penn, the editor of Wine Business Monthly, wanted to make sense of the avalanche of winery mergers...

Jeff Siegel

Green Water, Hydrology, and Viticulture: Observing the Importance of Soil Moisture and Rethinking Land Management

Think of water, and images of vast oceans, white-capped rapids, babbling brooks, and placid lakes come to mind...

Sarah Bray

Blind Tasting with Max Goldberg

In the latest blind tasting episode of GuildSomm: Into the Glass, Master Sommelier Chris Tanghe pours the always...

Grenache with Seth Kitzke

In the latest GuildSomm podcast, Master Sommelier Chris Tanghe speaks with Seth Kitzke of Upsidedown Wine about...