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W. Blake Gray is author of “California Winetopia,” a Japanese-language guide to California wines. He was previously a staff wine writer/editor for the San Francisco...Liz Willette got bitten by the wine bug while living in Beaune, France. At the time she was working for Butterfield & Robinson, a high-end active travel company...Richard Leahy has been writing about wine for consumers and producers since 1986. He was a regional editor for Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide, and was...Ashton Keefe is the Owner/Executive Chef of Ashton Keefe LLC. Culinary Lifestyle Services, which specializes in boutique catering, food styling and culinary...Sondra Barrett, PhD fell in love with food early on when she starting reading cook books as a young girl. She hasn’t stopped since. She earned a PhD in biochemistry...Jon Thorsen is the founder of the popular blog The Reverse Wine Snob: Thumbing My Nose At Bottles Over $20!. The idea behind the blog...
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Community Crush Barrel Tasting
About a week ago we hosted the first annual Community Crush barrel tasting with the wines various San Francisco communities made in 2008. Everybody got to taste everybody else’s wine and also evaluated the differences between the exact same wine … Continue reading
Serving Up Fine Winemaking Knowledge Daily
We like to think that we do a good job of teaching our clients about winemaking. In fact, people often tell us that the learning part is a huge component of making wine at Crushpad. We do all kinds of … Continue reading
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Rockroom Pinots a hit with Wine Spectator
Today brought word that a pair of Pinots from Rockroom Wines were received very well by James Laube of the Wine Spectator. The 2006 Hein and 2007 Bohemian bottlings were given 90 and 89 point ratings respectively. Way more interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged crushpad, lames laube, rockroom, scores, scott collier, wine spectator
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