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La Plus ça Change/ Goes to Show You Never Can Tell

Posted on March 5, 2018 Written by Edmunds St. John

LA PLUS CA CHANGE/ GOES TO SHOW YOU NEVER CAN TELL ORGANOLEPTICIANS #94 MARCH 2, 2018 Even without climate change, farming is a crapshoot. Eventually something goes awry: a frost right after bloom, a tractor axle gives out, ground squirrels girdle vine roots, virulent microbes, wildfire… Locusts! Zombies! Still, somehow, every year, grapes get picked, […]

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LIKE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN – April 16, 2013

Posted on March 14, 2014 Written by Edmunds St. John

Organolepticians Number 87 How does it feel? You’ve spent close to half your life in the wine business, and established yourself as a vintner in California, working with some grape varieties almost no one else in the neighborhood has heard of, and it works, in its way; you’ve begun to carve out what will become […]

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AS TIME GOES BY- March 8, 2011

Posted on March 14, 2014 Written by Edmunds St. John

Organolepticians Number 85 After a certain number of vintages, keeping track of them all becomes more and more difficult.  But don’t ask me what that number is,  I’ve long since lost track.  I liked 2010 a lot, mostly, though it wasn’t without problems (which I’ll get to momentarily).  In 2010 conditions were, generally, cool enough, […]

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