Category: Wine

  • Visiting the Finger Lakes wine region of New York

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    Last Thanksgiving I took my family on a wine adventure in the Finger Lakes region of New York. When we first decided on the trip, I wasn’t sure what to expect. In the wine stores here in the suburbs of Houston you can’t find many Finger Lakes wines and the manager at my local grocery…

  • Behind the Scenes at Crush with Pomum Cellars

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    This month I had the opportunity to work behind-the-scenes for a few days with Javier Alfonso, owner, winemaker and chief janitor (his words) of Pomum Cellars in Washington state. I helped check on the grapes, met with the farmers, brought grapes back to the winery for processing, hand sorted, crushed, did a lot of rinsing…

  • Max’s Wine Dive in Houston, Texas

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    This was just one of the signs that greeted me as I went to meet with Jacob Fairchild, the director of wine sales for  Max’s Wine Dive in Houston. “Merlot is the new Merlot,” said another one. Obviously I was in for a treat. But I knew that already. About two weeks prior to the…

  • Behind the Scenes Winemaking: Pomum Cellars

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      I’ve been in Washington state for the past few days, volunteering as a winemaker’s assistant for Pomum Cellars, based in Woodinville. I’ve been checking on the grapes growing at the vineyards in the Yakima Valley, collected grapes that have been harvested and I have hand-sorted, crushed and pressed the grapes. And I have cleaned…

  • In the Vineyard at Crush with Pomum Cellars

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    So what is it that a winemaker does in the vineyard, especially when he is buying his grapes from farmers and not growing them himself? That’s what I was looking to find out on my first day behind the scenes as a winemaker’s assistant with Javier Alfonso of Pomum Cellars. Javier was gracious enough to…