This blog began as a record of taking the WSET Diploma, during which I studied and explored wines and spirits made all around the world. Having passed the Diploma and become a WSET Certified Educator, the blog has become much more: a continual outlet for my passion for the culture of wine, spirits, and beer.
I aim to educate in an informal, enlightening, and engaging manner. As well as maintaining this blog to track my latest enthusiasms, I provide educational tastings for restaurants and for private groups. Details can be found on the website, and collaborations are welcome.
Wine is my primary interest and area of expertise and this blog aims to immerse the reader in the history of wine, to understand why wine tastes like it does, and to explore all the latest news. At the same time, beer and spirits will never be ignored.
For the drinker, whether casual or professional, today is a good time to be alive.
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Wine has been commercially made in the USA since the mid-nineteenth century, but there have been many challenges which reflect the political, federal culture of the country. Prohibition, a hundred years later, still looms large and attitudes to wine remain conservative in various ways. But California is the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, and wine in some form is made in all fifty states. How does wine fit into the culture of this vast, disparate country?
