Interview: Daniel Pi
Never more comfortable than when breaking the winemaking mould, the Peñaflor veteran is a central figure in the story of Argentina’s wine industry, as Amanda Barnes reveals in this interview with Daniel Pi… Published in Decanter magazine, October 2018 Overseeing the production of more than 200 million litres of wine each year, Daniel Pi doesn’t […]
Interview with Robert Kamen, Kamen Estate
Interview for Wine-Searcher You grew up in the city projects in the Bronx. How did you end up as a California winemaker? I sold my first screenplay to Warner for $135,000 in 1979. I called my friend to celebrate and came down to Sonoma to meet him. We bought some wine, rolled some joints and […]
The silver lining to Chile’s 2014 harvest
Written for Wines of Chile While the year certainly started on a hard note for Chile with an unexpected and ferocious frost across many of the wine regions, nine months later the wine that has made its way into the wineries is looking promising for a high quality vintage. The difficult start to the vintage […]
Interview with Alberto Antonini
An interview with flying winemaker and international consultant, Alberto Antonini. Interviewed for Casa de Uco. Why is the Uco Valley such an exciting wine region? The location is by far the best valley in Mendoza. It’s where you get some very interesting calcareous spots and well drained soils, with warm days to ripen the fruit […]
Interview with Laura Catena
Laura Catena is an emergency room doctor in San Francisco. She is also a fourth-generation winemaker from a family credited with revolutionizing Argentinian wine – Bodega Catena Zapata’s flagship label, Nicolás Catena Zapata, was the first wine from Argentina to score a Robert Parker 98+. How did you first fall in love with wine? When my father was […]
