By Rick VanSickle You can’t judge a vintage by the devastation left in the wake of the previous growing season, although it can’t be ignored either.
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle It’s harvest day on the Twenty Mile Bench and Thomas Bachelder asks me — insists, really — to taste this Chardonnay grape and that
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle I remember it well. The wind was howling off the Niagara Escarpment as busloads of wine journalists and dignitaries arrived at a ti
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle The trunks on these weathered vines are downright gnarly, twisted into macabre shapes and scarred from decades of yielding some of t
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle One of the more intriguing wine tastings I have ever attended was the Great Chardo Swap that was part of the International Cool Cli
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