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Myths of wine and food matching

Why choosing wines for dishes is as meaningful as it ever was

Jan 14 • Randy Caparoso

The accidental and deliberate collisions of terroir and natural winemaking

The strange place found by today's alternative American winemakers

Jan 2 • Randy Caparoso

Electricity in the bottle

Hamel Estate adjusts their farming and winemaking to garner mineral expressions

Dec 23, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

Oak barrels, part 4—winemaker machinations

Harney Lane, Turley and Hamel Estate (from variability to uniformity and little as possible)

Dec 12, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

Oak barrels, part 3—how barrels are coopered

Step by step visuals

Dec 8, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

Recent posts

Oak barrels, part 2—silviculture and coopering

A Master Cooper guided trip through French forests and mills

Dec 4, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

Oak barrels, part 1—origin, usage and...

Modern day impact on the American wine industry and consumer tastes

Dec 1, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

A 9,000-year history of Vitis vinifera

How the wine grapes we know today emerged from a genetic mixture of domesticated and wild grapes

Nov 19, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

Rainy day letter: AI will never replace human perception of wine

The more consumers appreciate wine, the more real they want their experience to be

Nov 13, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

A last shout-out to Lodi, an appellation replete with mavericks and masters

A restaurant style list of wines celebrating Lodi terroir

Nov 5, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

The road to agroenology

Joseph Phelps Vineyards’ “Rooted In Tomorrow” dinners signal a new path forged by "smarter, more responsible winegrowing"

Oct 13, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

How does ChatGPT “do me?”

What happened when I asked AI to write an article on old vines using my voice

Oct 7, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

The grapes of Portugal

How Portuguese cultivars are being translated in California terroirs

Sep 29, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

Why wine appreciation never changes

It's human nature that perpetually complicates our rich and fecund industry

Sep 22, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

My dinner with Kermit

Sep 4, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

What's wrong with today's wine consumers?

Even with the uptick in wine industry sales

Aug 27, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

The new (or rather, the original) definition of wine balance

The slow and tortuous route back to sensory standards associated with appellations

Aug 12, 2025 • Randy Caparoso

The Wine Clarion by Randy Caparoso

The Wine Clarion by Randy Caparoso

A call to wine lovers who appreciate wines for what they are, not what they're supposed to be.

Original photography

Randy Caparoso Photography

Custom photo prints by author

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