What to Know About Older Champagne
This story, in one form or another, has been told countless times over the last 18 years, and the memory of it makes it seem as if it...
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Melissa L. Smith
5 min
What to know when visiting wine country
We're constantly acclimating to the new realities of living in a pandemic, and the constant changes in mask policies, indoor and outdoor...
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Melissa L. Smith
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Valuing Wine Collections
The infinite complexity that goes into assigning valuations and appraising wine collections. DURING THE PANDEMIC I developed in-house...
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Melissa L. Smith
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Dream Cellars: Heidi Barrett
Collector: Heidi Barrett Location: Calistoga Number of Cellars: 1 Date: December 2020 Okay, wow. Heidi Barrett. There has never been a...
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Melissa L. Smith
8 min
A menu on the fly, decades in the making
I’ve always had an overactive imagination. I immediately picture him and his SWAT team buddies busting up a bakery where the women...
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Melissa L. Smith
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Heitz: A timeless winery on the eve of its 60th year
Having just evacuated the property of the livestock and personnel the week before because of the encroaching fires, we were among the first
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