by Monte Belmonte | May 14, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, Monte Belmonte Wines
“This is super important, Monte. You can do something. Having this knowledge that you do. Knowing both the word and knowing what you know about wine. You can do something to help this word along.” So was the charge of The Word Nerd, Emily Brewster, my resident...
by Monte Belmonte | Apr 30, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines
Everything I know about wine I learned from my mother. Not my biological mother. Her relationship to wine consists of one wine cooler a year and White Zinfandel at family gatherings. Everything I know about wine I learned from my Wine Mother. And as we approach...
by Monte Belmonte | Apr 16, 2019 | Articles, Featured
“Why we can’t tell good wine from bad,” The Atlantic, published October 28, 2011 “Does all wine taste the same?” The New Yorker, published June 13, 2012 “Wine tasting: it’s junk science” The Guardian, published June 22, 2013 “The legendary study that embarrassed wine...
by Monte Belmonte | Apr 5, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines
Amy McMahan, co-owner of Mesa Verde in Greenfield, is one of the most intellectually curious people I know. And her curiosity guides her passion for wine. The last time I wrote about Mesa Amy in this column, it was when she showed up to my house with four bottles of...
by Monte Belmonte | Mar 19, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, Monte Belmonte Wines
“I think we’ve kind of created, like, a black barbershop type of community.” A black barbershop may not be one’s first impression when walking into the new wine shop, Shelburne Falls Cork, but that’s how renowned local chef and newly pinned sommelier, Michaelangelo...
