My name is Melanie Ofenloch and I have a philosophy – no wine snobs allowed. While my profession is marketing communications, my passion is drinking wine. I don’t consider myself a wine expert – just an everyday person with a love for the grape, a few annual Pilgrimages to wine regions and at the end of each year with an ugly Visa summary to prove it.
It’s been about 18 months since I last had the chance to sit down with Tom Gamble, Owner of Gamble
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Me and Gaia Gaja If Italian royalty comes knocking, one answers the call with an appropriate curtsy. When I received
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As a wine blogger, I get a lot of samples and I am very grateful to have the chance
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This Summer, I was lucky enough to be included on the insiders list for one heck of a party as the
......continue readingDebbie Gioquindo, Lisa and me In my last blog post, I talked about my top 10 discoveries from the Wine
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Alexia Pellegrini, Chief Operating Officer of Pellegrini Wine Company Our last stop en route to the Wine Bloggers Conference was to
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Michael Kansberg, Artisa, Estate Sommelier, Cindy Rynning and me; Photo Credit: Chris Pittman Our second day began with a visit
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Cindy Rynning, me and Jennifer Higgins, Lambert Bridge Winemaker It’s amazing how the world and your intentions can change quickly.
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Those of you who know me, and/or Craig Camp from Troon Vineyards, know that we have a history of going
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Please note that I am only posting this story because I have been asked to by several friends who are
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Linden Vineyards It’s funny, when I look back seven years ago, at what I wrote during my first trip during
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New Zealand has been making wines since the 1850s, but the modern wine industry in New Zealand began in the
......continue readingThere once was a debate on the origin of wine. At the end of last year it was finally determined
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Our line-up of Loire Valley wines This Summer, I was invited to a wine chat focusing on Loire Valley
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It’s time for another sample round up and I found that a theme emerged for me this quarter. I either
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Did you know that October is Merlot Month? And this is a grape worth celebrating! For the last five years, hundreds
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Andrés Sánchez, Photo Courtesy of Alcance Winery Recently Andrés Sánchez, Winemaker of Alcance winery and co-founder of VIGNO, Chile’s first viticultural regulatory
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Hamish Clark, Winemaker and Viticulturist from Saint Claire Family Estate It just took one sip of the 2017 Saint Claire
......continue readingOne of this Summer’s wine studios was focused on the importance of rosé wine labels on #winestudio, a conversation about
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We hired “Just in Tuscany”, a service that does private wine tours and hiking trips in the region, to
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My name is Melanie Ofenloch and I have a philosophy–no wine snobs allowed. I don’t consider myself a wine expert – just an everyday person with a love for the grape.
