Sake Industry News. Issue #156.

Bottle size in South Africa, Tottori GI, Kasu bone booster, Beyond the Best Yamada Nishiki Project, Hakutsuru retiring Main Brewery No. 2, Traditional Yeast Starters and more!

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🎧The Wine Makers – Blood of Gods Ep1: Brooke Delmas Robertson & Stacy Buchanan

Stacy Buchanan is the founder of Blood of Gods, the cult biannual publication that explores the unlikely intersection of heavy metal and wine. Based in Walla Walla, Washington, Buchanan is also the force behind The Annual Merrymaking, a festival of wine, art, and music that draws industry professionals and metalheads alike. We were invited to come join the fun. Brooke Delmas Robertson from Delmas Wines was the moderator for the event that included Super Somm André Mack, Tyler Balliet from the Rebel School of Wine and Tegan Passalacqua of Turley and Sandlands. Brooke sat down with us and Stacy in her newly opened tasting room in downtown Walla Walla. We were also hangin out with Kelly Cornett, wine educator from Atlanta, who was in town for the festivities, and is also a writer for the zine’s wine reviews. She has her own podcast, A Cork in the Road, so we decided to join forces and get some interviews. [Ep 422] delmaswines.com @delmaswines @bloodofgodszine @acorkintheroad thewinemakers

Marqués de Riscal, Rueda, Spain

These came up as something of a suprise when tasting at Marqués de Riscal for the most-recent Rioja Report. Admittedly it wasn’t a surprise that a Rioja winery produced wines in DO Rueda as seemingly everyone with the least bit of presence in Rioja or Ribera del Duero has a project or outright winery in Rueda. It was more the fact that they were exceedingly engaging. While the younger of the two met all points in terms of what a Verdejo wine from the region should taste like, the “Gran […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription .

Sake Industry News. Issue #156.

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🎧The Wine Makers – Blood of Gods Ep1: Brooke Delmas Robertson & Stacy Buchanan

Marqués de Riscal, Rueda, Spain

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