You might know him as the voice of interplanetary stoner boyfriend extraordinaire Jeff Fischer on TV's American Dad, but the real Jeff Fischer is a vineyard living, grape picking, seriously committed winemaker. His label—Habit Wine—is sold at prominent wine shops (Silverlake Wine, Flatiron Wines, Astor Wines, and many more) and appears on lists at noted restaurants nationwide, … [Read more...] about Jeff Fischer of Habit Wine and American Dad: The Sprudge Wine Interview
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Natural Wine Has No Calories
In addition to being free of added sulfites, fining agents, chemical additives, centrifugal alcoholic manipulations, chaptalization, wood chips, vanilla extract, diethylene glycol, dried swim bladders, bovine stomach acid, Mega Purple, and dozens more wine-helping chemicals currently undergoing rigorous testing at the University of California-Davis, today it was discovered that … [Read more...] about Natural Wine Has No Calories
West Coast Nouveau Has Arrived
“Nouveau” is nothing new. The term refers to the tradition of bottling the first wine of the fall harvest immediately after fermentation—sometimes just a few days or weeks—to celebrate the end of a vintner's long harvest season and provide a chuggable party wine for the holidays. In France, they've been doing it for decades, with winemaker Georges Duboeuf and a like-minded … [Read more...] about West Coast Nouveau Has Arrived
Bar Covell’s Matthew Kaner: The Sprudge Wine Interview
It's mid-afternoon in the LA neighborhood of Atwater Village, just across the Los Angeles River from Los Feliz, Echo Park, and Silver Lake. I'm there to meet Matthew Kaner, co-owner of some of the Southland's best wine bars—including Bar Covell in Los Feliz, Augustine Wine Bar in Sherman Oaks, and Dead Or Alive Bar in Palm Springs—who later this summer will open Good Measure, a … [Read more...] about Bar Covell’s Matthew Kaner: The Sprudge Wine Interview