FERMENTATION is going on hiatus for a couple weeks for reasons I’ll get to in a second. However, I have cued up some posts that will arrive here in my absence and that will test your knowledge of the world of wine. So, in advance I encourage you to enjoy. Why will FERMENTATION be going on Hiatus? There are a number of good reasons. Let me outline them here: Reason # 1. Reason # 2: Reason #3: Reason #4: Reason…

Ken’s Wine Guide The well-organized, informative independent wine guide on the Internet is not as common as you might think. In most cases the problem is with the organization. I was recently pointed to a good example of this kind of website that I’d come across before but hadn’t visited again. Ken’s Wine Guide is the work of Ken Hoggins from Massachusetts. He’s been at it in one form or another since 1998. Ken’s is a useful guide, particularly for…

Joe Dressner: The Wine Importer Some time ago in an on-line forum I can’t recall, Joe Dressner called me names and impuned my integrity. I just can’t remembery why or what he actually said what he said. All I know is I keep going back to his blog to read what he has to say because it’s entertaining as hell. I don’t know how long Dressner has been posting his thoughts, tidbits and observations from his importer’s-eye-view of things but…

JAMIE GOODE’S WINE BLOG Jamie Goode is the blogosphere’s best connection to the British wine writing community. It’s a community I’d love to know better and would love to get to know its members better. But being both across the pond and a fly-over-country distance away, it’s just not possible. So, I live vicariiously through Jamie and his blog. And it’s a good living. Goode finds time to recount not just the wines he’s tasted at various occasion and on…

ROSHAMBLOG Roshambo Winery in Healdsburg has made a career and created a devoted following by….now following. That is to say, Naomi Brilliant, artist and driving force behind the winery, rarely does things the way you’d expect a winery to do them. To further clarify, that’s breath of fresh air. I remember suggesting to Naomi a long time ago that she start blogging, that she possessed the perfect soul for such an endeavor. It appears she had other things to do…like…