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Fred Swan Interviews SF Chronicle Wine Editor Jon Bonné
On Tuesday, December 9, I conducted an hour-long interview of Jon Bonné in front of a live audience for the Commonwealth Club. Bonné is the Wine Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, a two-time...
An Interview with Karen MacNeil
We recently caught up with Karen MacNeil, author of the best -selling book The Wine Bible in anticipation of her visit Saturday, May 4th, where she’ll teach her hugely popular class What Makes Grea...
Pushing the Limit of Cool Climates: Exploring Nova Scotia, Part One
Having previously known of Nova Scotia only from tales told me of Cape Breton 30 years ago by a friend who summered often there, it newly piqued my interest upon meeting in England its wine associa...
Insider Interviews with David Furer - Presenting Alejandro Fernandez
I first encountered the wines of Ribera del Duero in 1992 through Pesquera winery, then the only winery of the region with any recognition beyond that of the historic Vega Sicilia. Its founder, Ale...
Steven Spurrier: Father of the Judgement of Paris Wine Competition
Steven Spurrier's international stature was assured in 1976 when he organized and led the legendary ‘Judgement of Paris’, blind tasting for French trade and media. California wines won the competi...
Meet Karl Storchmann - Wine Economist
Karl Storchmann came to my attention in 2005 when I received a notification through the Circle of Wine Writers when serving upon its executive committee that the New York City-based German and othe...
Meet Roger Aquilina - Malta's Renowned Oenologist
My first, and to date only, visit to Malta occurred this past February when I accepted an invitation from its NYC-based US tourism representative. As most of its produce is consumed in situ by its ...
Meet Greg Jones - Professor and Climatologist
Meet Professor Greg Jones, a research climatologist who specializes in the viticulture, focussing on how climate variation influences vine growth, wine production and wine quality. Read more about...
Meet Madeline Triffon - First American Female Master Sommelier
Madeline Triffon has traversed the eddies of being not only a female pioneer in the until recently male-dominated US wine business, but more so in being the first Master Sommelier of her gender. W...
MEET MONIKA CHRISTMANN - INSIDER INTERVIEWS BY DAVID FURER
Prof. Monika Christmann and I met in Chicago soon after she'd completed her time working on Simi Winery's winemaking team having begun as Department Head for both Oenology & Wine Technology and...
Meet Tom Stevenson - The Sparkling Wine Authority
If anyone on this website hasn't heard and read of Tom Stevenson then they've grossly misstepped. Worth noting is that after a trying time interviewing a previous subject via email I balked at doin...
Meet Richard Smart - The 'Flying Vine Doctor'
The ‘Flying Vine Doctor’ Richard Smart has been involved with worldwide viticulture since the mid 1960s dating to time spent at Roseworthy College in his native Australia where he once served as it...
Meet Willi Klinger - Wine Marketing Maestro
A life in theatre didn't prove daunting enough for the Viennese Willi Klinger, now the Managing Director of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board filling in his spare time moonlighting as a lecturer at...
Meet Beltrán Domecq y Williams - Insider Interviews by David Furer
Beltrán Domecq y Williams has had an illustrious career. His studies included time at UC-Davis with the illustrious Professor Maynard Amerine, training that later led to Domecq co-authoring with Ja...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Patrick Spencer
After many years working in restaurant management, later some with a winery near his Oregon home, Patrick Spencer set his sights on a related niche which had at the time been the cause of much hand...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Aaron Pott
Between officing at home and Quixote Winery where his own label, Pott Wines, are vinified, native Californian Aaron Pott looks to the interests of mostly Napa Valley clients who cherish his ability...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Paul Hobbs
Owner/winemaker of his eponymous winery, Paul Hobbs's exposure to farming started as a child where in upstate New York his father presciently had young Paul taste apples of the same variety grown i...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Leonardo LoCascio
Like contemporaries Terry Theise, Neil Empson, Kermit Lynch, all of whose full names grace the bottles of wines selected and marketed by them, Leonardo LoCascio's timing, business acumen, sense of ...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Jean Arnold-Sessions
Jean Arnold-Sessions' career has been greatly centered around wineries in northern California: Chateaux St. Jean and Montelena, J, Jordan, Chalk Hill, Williams Selyem, Laurel Glen, Rudd, and for th...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Carole Meredith
Best known for her UC Davis research group's pioneering use of DNA typing in differentiating Vitis Vinifera varieties and elucidating their parentages, Carole Meredith's first career has helped in ...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Patrick McGovern
Several years ago, while living and working in London, I attended a Spanish wine symposium at which I made the acquaintance of Professor Patrick McGovern. Upon chatting of the day’s presentations, ...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Dr. Liz Thach, MW
Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Thach, MW is a Professor of Management and Wine Business at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, areas of expertise including Wine Business Strategy, Human Resou...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Charles Banks
Long a wine consumer and collector while working for others in the capital management sector, the once ambitious amateur Charles Banks entered the wine industry in 2000 with the purchase of a forme...
Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Stuart Pigott
My first encounter with the work of Stuart Pigott was as a relative novice to the world of wine in the mid-'90s having read his entrancingly informative book on the Wines of Germany, written with t...