Curiosities
Wine Making and Wine Styles
There is more to wine than big red and crisp white. In this section you’ll find a discussion of how to break up the stylistic space between these extremes. There’s also an extensive discussion of the processes I use in the cellar to bring wines toward the points of balance I want to explore.
Cofermenting Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir. Despirte being propagated from pink-berried vines, some of the Pinot Gris cuttings planted at Breezy Slope Vineyard produce green fruit. Sometimes one vine even produces both colors…
Product Design
Optical illusions + TCA-free corks + the mathematics of infinity = profit ?
At the table
Brief articles on the kinds of foods I like to eat with the Marginalia wines. These articles are organized by techniques and ingredients, with the hope that readers will find them useful in subsequent improvisations in the kitchen.