Tag: winemaker
Why Are Boutique Wineries Adopting Craft Beer Techniques? The Rise of Cross-Category Innovation
Discover how boutique wineries are adopting craft beer techniques to innovate, diversify revenue, and create wine-beer hybrids that attract new consumers.
What IPA Styles Should New Winemakers Try First? A Cross-Category Guide
Discover which IPA beer styles match your wine preferences. From hazy to West Coast, learn hop flavors through wine tasting expertise.
The Winemaker Who Left Tech to Save Her Family’s Vineyard
When Sofia Martinez traded her corner office at a Silicon Valley startup for muddy boots in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, she had no idea she was…
Is DNA Research the Future Solution for Winemakers’ Woes?
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine Science · 7 min read For thousands of years, winemakers dealt with disease, pests, and climate through trial and error —…
Explore Sonoita, Arizona’s Completely Underrated Wine Region
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine Travel · Arizona · 8 min read Arizona wine is no longer a surprise to the people paying attention — it’s…
Introducing the World’s Most Sought-After Champagne
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine · Champagne · 7 min read In two small walled plots in the grand cru village of Aÿ, in the heart…
What Is Wine Oxidation? And How to Stop It
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine · 6 min read Open a bottle of white wine, leave it on the counter overnight, and taste it in the…
Near Sedona’s famed red rocks, a wine trail in Arizona
Most Sedona visitors leave without knowing that 30 minutes south, along a winding creek road through oak-studded high desert, is one of the most genuinely…
The Napa Valley Nobody Talks About
Napa Valley produces roughly 4% of California’s wine grapes and generates approximately 17% of the state’s wine revenue — and the reason for that disproportionate…
The Mondavi Family: How Robert’s Grandchildren Are Making the Best Wine Yet
No family has shaped American wine more profoundly than the Mondavis — and no family has suffered more publicly for it. Cesare Mondavi arrived from…
Driftless Glen Distillery: How Wisconsin’s Ancient Geology Made a Great Bourbon
Fifteen thousand years ago, the glaciers that flattened most of the Midwest stopped just short of a corner of southwestern Wisconsin. The ice retreated, the…
Italian Biodynamic Wine: What the Best Producers Are Actually Doing
Biodynamic wine sits at the intersection of serious agriculture and genuine mysticism — which is either its most compelling feature or its most off-putting one,…
Gamay: The Most Underrated Grape in the World
In July 1395, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, issued an edict banishing Gamay from the Burgundy wine region entirely, calling it the “disloyal Gaamez”…
Three Ways Champagne Is Beating Its Climate-Change Problem
Champagne’s climate-change problem is simple to state and hard to solve: the region’s identity is built on cool temperatures, high acidity, and slow ripening. Rising…
Long Island Wine in 2026: How Cabernet Franc Finally Put the North Fork on the Map
In 2016, wine writer Lenn Thompson posed two questions about Long Island wine that he said might not be answered for decades: would the North…