EXOTIC VARIETALS

In the world, wine is made from some 4,000 different grape varieties, but 95% of the wine that people drink comes from those 15 varieties that we all know well. With the ever-present idea of expanding the narrow field of the wine world, I look for varietals that are...

WINE vs. MEGA MINING and FRACKING

In the Andes region, where I live, there is an ongoing fight over the use of water, which is a scarce common shared resource. The mining and oil companies that profit from the indiscriminate use of water want to settle in the region to take everything in exchange for...