Virginie Boone

1 month ago | jebdunnuck.com | Virginie Boone

Regrets, I have a few. My biggest wine regret is that it’s taken me this long to pay serious attention to Argentina. Many say Spain is the most exciting place for wine right now; I’d wholeheartedly add Argentina. Why? Because everyone talks about capturing freshness in their wines. Argentina is...… Subscribe to read more Get access to this content and more when you become a subscriber! Subscribe Already a Subscriber? Login

1 month ago | jebdunnuck.com | Virginie Boone

Regrets, I have a few. My biggest wine regret is that it’s taken me this long to pay serious attention to Argentina. Many say Spain is the most exciting place for wine right now; I’d wholeheartedly add Argentina. Why? Because everyone talks about capturing freshness in their wines. Argentina is...… Subscribe to read more Get access to this content and more when you become a subscriber! Subscribe Already a Subscriber? Login

2 months ago | jebdunnuck.com | Virginie Boone

While there might be cities that never sleep, most wine regions do, in the off-season, between harvests. The exceptions are the Santa Lucia Highlands and its neighbors on the other side, along the Gabilan Mountains and Chalone, which look across from one another over the Salinas Valley. This report focuses...…

Feb 21, 2025 | jebdunnuck.com | Virginie Boone

Mendocino is a vast, mostly remote area north of Sonoma County and Napa Valley that has long roots in grape growing and winemaking, thanks to a sizable Italian immigrant population that settled there in the 1850s, around the time of the Gold Rush, just as California was joining the United...… Subscribe to read more Get access to this content and more when you become a subscriber! Subscribe Already a Subscriber? Login

Dec 23, 2024 | guildsomm.com | Virginie Boone

For much of recent history, fine drink in the context of fine food has meant wine, and many a tome have been written about the right and wrong ways to pair the two. But these ideas about right and wrong are evolving and expanding. Increasingly, people believe that there should be no such thing as traditional wine and food pairings. MW Tim Hanni is one outspoken critic, dismissing the concept altogether. He was quoted in The Drinks Business in 2019, stating, “A perfect wine pairing doesn’t exist.