Daily Wine News: Wine Tasting Notes

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In Decanter, Chris Losh looks at what goes into penning a wine-tasting note. “Why is it so hard to write a decent tasting note? Because it clearly is. When researching this article, pretty much the only things that everyone agreed on were: i) it’s difficult, and ii) hardly anyone does it well.”

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Jess Lander remembers Jonathan Waters, Chez Panisse wine director for 32 years, who died after a bicycle accident over the weekend.

“The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has taken another loss in a long-running legal fight over the direct shipment to restaurants of wines that the state monopoly declines to carry in its stores,” reports Harold Brubaker in the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Commonwealth Court found the agency liable for damages, interest, and lawyers’ fees in a case brought by two wine merchants over the agency’s failure to allow direct shipment of such “special order” wines to restaurants — instead of to a state store — as a 2016 law required.”

In Club Oenologique, Adam Lechmere explores the West Sussex wineries that are “channeling Napa Valley in England.”

Longtime fans of Merry Edwards, the lauded Russian River Valley Pinot Noir label that’s now part of Roederer’s portfolio, won’t be disappointed, says James Molesworth in Wine Spectator.

On JancisRobinson.com, Alder Yarrow remembers California winemaker Sean Thackrey.

Oh, and one Florida winery is making wine out of avocados.

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