HeyJaredThe Wine Clarion by Randy Caparoso
A call to wine lovers who appreciate wines for what they are, not what they're supposed to be.
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The new light (and chillable) red wine paradigm (opens the original)
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The following is a story originally composed in 2025 for Lodi Wine. It is written, consequently, for a general audience—not wine geeks, trade or professionals—although it speaks to everyone. I am posting it because recently we have been hearing more and more about soft, easy, “chillable” red wines, just beginning to pop up in the market. They have always been there, of course, but there’s more of them now; the best of these wines under classic labels, and many of the new, commercialized bottling
What’s wrong with “natural?” (opens the original)
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An updated version of one of my 2016 bylines published as The Wandering Sommelier in Tasting Panel Magazine, asking a question as salient today as it was ten years ago.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch
A recent history of umami from a wine and restaurant perspective (opens the original)
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Harvest faces and the story behind grape pickers in California (opens the original)
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ROWEN Wine Company: A Study of High Elevation Terroir (opens the original)
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