, OR they will be American enology/viticulture students from UC Davis, CSU Fresno, etc. working for 6-12 months. The ability to speak French will certainly help, especially at smaller, less well known estates. I don’t know...

Vern Singleton (UC Davis professor and coauthor of a standard enology textbook) had a refrigerator in his garage and successfully aged various wines in it for years. As I recall he said it just slowed things down. Presumably he...

they really value customer input to get things more in line. 2. Soft opens work best with a screened group as opposed to the public at large. I think Enology, for example, got this right by setting up their soft open over email,...

Should be interesting...hubby works at Fresno State and we have been pretty unimpressed with what the enology department has to offer. Not that anything was horrible, just nothing really great or exciting. I guess I...

) That wine was corked the moment a contaminated closure was inserted into the bottle at the winery. It would not have mattered if you opened that bottle 18 weeks, 18 months or 18 years after you bought it. Zinfandel suffers from...

in the long distance classes for viticulure and enology. I have also dug up part of my backyard and will have 20 vines planted in two weeks. If you have never used an auger to drill holes, make sure you have a guy with you. Good...

Enology Wine Bar in the old Zebra Lounge Space near the cathedral sells his charcuterie.

Walter Schug learned his trade in the Rheingau and studied viticulture and enology at Geisenheim. http://www.schugwinery.com/html/walter_schug.jsp

to show at their best after bottling or shipping. In the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, published by the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, an abstract (link below), “Chemical Characterization of...

, it turns out, someone else actually did do just that too..... One of the greatest advantages I had, however, was that for awhile I lived in a house where one of my roomates was getting his PhD in Enology, and thus he ran the...

(and their warm and marginal wine) since...but haven’t been to Enology yet.....good to see the CP wine scene is getting even better!

better . . . . This was among 48 of us — all “professional judges,” attending the tasting as a part of a “continuing education” seminar. But keep in mind I am NOT a UC Davis Enology graduate, and I...

I began learning about wine and buying the occasional reputable bottle in the early eighties. Eventually I attended the local enological society’s international wine fair and had a taste of the 1983 Ch. Palmer (Margaux –...

. We discovered this in 1998, by using DNA paternity analysis methods just like those used with humans. Carole Meredith Professor Emerita Department of Viticulture and Enology University of California ********** Again, I’m not...

's possible to question whether the changes are a good thing but the techniques do work and there’s a scientific basis to them. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/magazine/07ENOLOGI.html? Link:...