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1 week ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
It was only a matter of time before the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants reached the wine community. That happened Thursday morning, June 12, at about 5:30 Pacific time as ICE agents seized the owner of a vineyard management firm as he left his home in Newberg, Oregon, in the heart of the Willamette Valley wine country.
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2 weeks ago | 
open.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
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2 weeks ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
Here’s my biweekly reading list of notable articles about wine, including a couple new (to me, at least) Substacks that I find refreshing. New perspectives sometimes help remind me why I fell in love with wine and why I enjoy writing about it. I hope you like and support them, too. Also, I turned on the Chat feature for this newsletter this week.
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2 weeks ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
What do you look for in a wine? Some people want a catchy name or pretty label, as long as it says “chardonnay.” Many prefer dry wines, while some favor sweetness in their vino. Others want anything that’s trendy, or at least new to them, while a good number prefer to stick with the classics. “What do you look for in a wine?” is a question I get often, around the water cooler at work before I retired or at dinner parties with friends.
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3 weeks ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
I recently was able to join a Zoom chat with Bibiana Gonzales Rave, owner and winemaker of Cattleya wines, and her husband, Jeff Pisoni, winemaker of Lucia by Pisoni. Jeff’s brother Mark, who handles the viticulture side of the family business in the Santa Lucia Highlands, joined in from the vineyard. We were tasting and discussing Pinot Noirs and Syrahs from the two labels.
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3 weeks ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
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3 weeks ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
Fans of Ernst Loosen know that he rarely sits still. As owner of Weingut Dr. Loosen, his family property in Germany’s Mosel region, he’s renowned for his Rieslings, from serious single-site bottlings to his popular, widely available Dr. L. He co-created Washington State’s Eroica Riesling in a joint venture with Chateau Ste. Michelle. In Oregon, he owns Appassionata winery, focused on age-worthy Pinot Noirs and a Grosse Gewächs-style Riesling.
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1 month ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
This will go down in history as the week The New York Times discovered Virginia makes some good wine, as Eric Asimov recounted his visit to northern Virginia and the Charlottesville area in April. The online headline, most likely not written by Asimov, was “Virginia is Finally for Wine Lovers,” which inevitably triggered the self-conscious Virginia wine webizens, who wondered why it took so long for the Gray Lady to learn what we’ve known for years.
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1 month ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
In May 2022, I attended the inaugural Saperavi Festival, organized by a group called Saperica that was dedicated to promoting Saperavi, the best known red wine grape of Georgia and Ukraine. The event was held at the Dr. Konstantin Frank winery in New York’s Finger Lakes, a fitting setting as Frank had come to this country from Odesa and was the first to plant Saperavi in the United States.
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1 month ago | 
dmwineline.substack.com | Dave McIntyre
Esporão is a leading winery in Alentejo, a region in central Portugal that has become a codeword for value, especially their Monte Velho line. Now they’ve introduced a reserve, at the whopping SRP of $18. It’s a great candidate for your patio cookouts this summer. Esperão Monte Velho Reserva 2022, Vinho Regional Alentejano, Portugal. ($18) 13.5%.
