By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR This weekend signals the start of grilling season. It’s not as if we haven’t been grilling since spring arrived — many of us even grill all winter. But Memorial Day just gets the juices going as we yearn for the smells of a grilled hamburger or chicken. Look at [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR After making wine since 1972 for Clos du Val, Bernard Portet was a couple of years into retirement when he ran into Don Chase in a parking lot. Chase had worked with Portet at Clos du Val and recently had left Kunde winery. He was looking for a job [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Bob Pepi is not one to retire easily. After selling the winery that he co-founded with his father in 1980, he has been consulting for other wineries in Argentina and elsewhere in the United States. But he got the hankering to make his own wine after the fruit became [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Cheryl Indelicato certainly comes from a background that would make a career in the wine business hardly a surprise. However an early detour into business and nursing ended with a return to the family business in 1990 when she joined Delicato Family Vineyards producers of Gnarly Head Twisted and [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR One of the great joys of writing this column is interacting with our readers. Whether it be on the street or via email, people are searching for answers to satisfy their curiosity or help them understand what they are drinking. Thank you. Here are some of the recent questions [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Think back about 40 years – if you are able – and try to recall what beverage and food was available to you. Stop at the cheese counter and you’re likely to find Velveeta. Grab a beer and it’s likely to be Schlitz or Budweiser. Wine? Gallo, Charles Krug [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR What inspires a college student to pursue a career in wine? Some are born into winemaking families, others make it a second career after growing tired of making big money in technology, while others become interested after spending a summer picking grapes. But who would expect a small liberal [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Do you see a lot more variety of wine on the shelves today? Or is it an illusion? The labels have certainly multiplied in the last decade, but the truth is that many of them are owned by the same company. You may love your inexpensive Ecco Domani pinot [...]
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR We get lots of questions about restaurant wines. Here are some of the more interesting ones we thought may be of interest to other readers. I am really tired of drinking chardonnay. It seems like that’s all a restaurant has to offer nowadays. We agree that only the finest [...]
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