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This past July 28th, the wine world mourned the death of pioneering winegrower David Hirsch, who showed the California wine industry, and the wider world, that Pinot Noir could be grown brilliantly a mere 3 miles from the chilly Pacific Ocean in the shadow of towering redwoods. A 2014 tractor accident put the then-70-year-old Hirsch in a wheelchair and hastened …

We missed the last vintage (2024) of this bottle, and are ready to get into the 2025 vintage which is in stores now. Costco has done a nice job keeping the price borderline ridiculous for this bottle. Over the years it’s bounced between $4.99 and $5.99, and with this latest vintage it is coming in […] Source : https://costcowineblog.com/2025-kirkland-signature-grave-pinot-grigio-friuli/

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The Douro Valley is one of the most jaw-dropping slices of wine country to be found anywhere on earth. Stunningly beautiful, it is also massive on a scale that few other wine regions can approach. With incredibly steep hillsides sporting terraces blasted out of solid rock with dynamite, climbing thousands of feet up from the river valley to incredible heights, …

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Much has been happening behind the scenes here at the new 1WD HQ, folks. You might have heard the recent news that my bruthah-from-anothah-muthah Jonathan Cristaldi is moving into the role of Chief Wine Critic for both The Tasting Panel and its sister publication The SOMM Journal. As JC wrote in the press release for […] This article was originally …

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve picked up a bottle of wine that had the words “old vines,” “vieilles vignes,” or “vigna vecchia” on the label and turned it around to find absolutely no further information about the vineyard that produced it. Were the vines 40 years old or 140? Did this come from one old vineyard or …