Grapevine

There has been a sea change in gender roles in winery management over the past 25 five years. The role of women as head winemakers has been slowly expanding. Most importantly, the perception of women as qualified wine professionals has

Nick Antonaccio

We live in a world of constant change. We live in a world of constant effort to validate the latest definition of the term “news.” We live in a world of tumultuous business plans and evolving business paradigms. And we

In recent columns, I’ve been reporting on man’s seeming interminable conflict with nature for control over the wine industry. Man’s ingenuity and science constantly strive to thwart the balance of nature in the Earth’s ecosystem. Nature’s response may be immediate

There is a growing interest in family genealogy. Services such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com are mining our interest in tracing our roots – not only our family history but, increasingly, our genomic make-up. We want to know more of our

  Last week I reported on devastating weather in western Europe that severely impacted the potential yield of 2017 grape crops. Throughout France and Italy, 20 to 50 percent of this year’s potential crop may be lost. The devastation took

Modern man is at the top of his homo sapiens game. Since we first stood upright, we have been subject to the constant whim and temperament of Mother Nature. Throughout our evolutionary lifecycle, our efforts to master and control nature

I’ve always been an advocate of full-bodied wines – be they red or white. I enjoy the unique balance of fruit and acid present in these wines. The increasing problem I’ve been encountering is that these full-bodied wines have higher

Life can present us with opportunities at unanticipated moments and under unanticipated circumstances. So it is that I came to write the “You Heard it Through the Grapevine” column for the Examiner group of newspapers. A chance conversation with publisher

I’ve written on numerous occasions that today’s wines are of the highest quality and greatest value in the history of wine. A mere 50 years ago (which is a short breath in the 6,000-year history of wine), poor growing techniques