James Melendez – JamesTheWineGuy | Demystifying Wine, Food, Travel & L...

Each year, I start out my wine tasting table with nearly a blank slate and I always put my wine wishlist out there.  I have found over time that states like California, Oregon and Washington land on my tasting table reliably; all other wine states rarely...

Welcome to the 13th edition of my Top 100 Wines of the years–this year it is Top 125 wines.   Why 125 wines this year?  I was looking at my raw list and there were so many more wines than the past two years.  This is the most robust list post-Pandemic...

When I mention the “O” word “Organic” there seems to be some contention around it. And even when I have talked about “sustainable” and “biodynamic” it seems that so many people have their own ideas on each of these subjects.
But I cannot imagine a world where each of these items (organic, sustainable, and biodynamic) were not being implemented in wine production today by some producers....

AI is not new – it has been with us for a while–first coined at the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956.  While AI is not new it is a hot topic especially in the past two years as noted in graph below:
I am not in the AI ‘scare camp’ as being the ‘end of everything’ but I am much more so in the ‘careful, judicious, and realistic’ camp.  I have seen demonstrations that were compelling and I do use and test AI products more than I ever have before. ...