More Sample Highlights: Making Progress
January 22, 2022
Do you guys hear the sound of progress? It’s me having published three samples columns
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Category: Oregon
Six Years of Transformation at Troon Vineyards
January 8, 2022
Close to six years ago, I wrote about Craig Camp, a well-known visionary, wine professional
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Tackling Samples – The March Continues
December 19, 2021
The march on tackling samples continues and today I’m focused on wines that stood out
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Pausing for A New Holiday Normality
November 26, 2021
The holidays are often expected to be joyful. After the death of loved ones, you find
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Olivella’s – Elevating Pizza and Wine
October 2, 2021
The perfect wine for pizza. A phrase often used, but in reality a lot of
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Second Half 2020 Sample Roundup
January 10, 2021
It’s sample time and I never knew what a challenge these would be in the time of
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Sips with Soul: A Live Tasting
August 16, 2020
Last Friday, the San Francisco Wine School gathered some of the top black Winemakers/Winery Owners, paired with
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Best Samples for 2020 – To Date
June 28, 2020
Best Samples for 2020 Today’s sample column evaluates 69 of the 128 wines that I’ve tasted over the past
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Virtual Barrel Tasting with Alta Colina Winery
June 7, 2020
In April, I was supposed to be attending my third annual Wine Writers’ Educational Tour, a media “deep dive”
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March 8, 2020
Anna Maria, Dick and Luisa Ponzi and me At the Wine Writers’ Educational Tours,
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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.
