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Dog-Days Update Revisited!
The other day I sensed the long days of summer will soon be ending, but nevertheless, here’s to hoping for more warm weather. Stay tuned for more updates in September, and please stay safe and healthy.Cheers! August is flying by and like everyone these days, we’re unsure what to expect leading up to a very late Labor Day holiday and the days beyond. […]
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Chateau Le Payral – The embarrassing luxury of experience
“The most important thing to know about my wines now is that all our work is in the vineyards!” This was the beginning of my afternoon visiting with Thierry D’Auhliac on a recent February afternoon. As we headed out of his house towards his backyard and surrounding vineyards, Thierry began to explain that his whole […]
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Machine vs Manual
A couple years ago while visiting growers in Beaujolais, I learned a little known fact about growing grapes there. In the northern, “cru” appellations, grapes are trained exclusively in goblet, pruned to a low bush shape, and not allowed to grow on wire trellises. I had noted this practice on previous trips but never knew […]
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To what purpose, April, do you return again?
“To what purpose, April, do you return again?” from Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay April 2017 marks Mise’s fifth anniversary! A surprising milestone — in the way any reminder that life moves pretty fast is surprising, disorienting — and when considered together with the recent addition of […]
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