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Welcome to The Younger Wine, a blog created by me to document the world of wine through my lens as I learn and navigate it. I’m an aspiring winemaker and recent graduate of the Viticulture & Enology program at UC Davis.
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Highlights from the Salon Première Coudée in Paris
Two of my favorites from November 6, 2023 I’ve written about my experience visiting a few different wine salons in Paris, but this week I had the opportunity to visit a more intimate wine tasting event with select, artisan producers thanks to the suggestion of a good friend, colleague and fellow Aggie. The salon took…
How an underwater treasure developed into a 40-year experiment and a luxury voyage of a lifetime
In 2010, a Nordic diver discovered a shipwreck off the coast of Finland in the middle of the Baltic Sea. The shipwreck had an incredible treasure: over 100 well-preserved bottles of champagne from the 1840s, and 47 of them were Veuve Clicquot cuvées from the time of Madame Clicquot herself. After several teams of œnologists…
What I’m Drinking – LES LUMIÈRES
How a solo trip to Marseille lead to a serendipitous wine discovery that I will never forget The South of France is a state of mind – the rolling lavender fields, the Cypress trees looming over the villages, and of course the wine. It’s a mindset, an almost mystical ideal. With an unusually rainy and…
Is Swiss wine a thing?
We all think of the Alps, the cheese, the beautiful rolling hills, the cute little villages within hiking distance of one another, the chocolate and of course the watches. What we don’t often think of is the wine. Does Switzerland make wine? Yes! And it’s quite tasty at that. Grapevines in Switzerland are recorded to…
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