Author name: Linda Whipple, CSW

Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW). WSET 3 Advanced with merit. Grateful for the grape and all things growing.

Punset wines: the story of one woman’s perseverance (#Italian FWT)

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Are Italian women taken seriously? Or does the longstanding culture of Italian machismo persist? Looking at the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2020, Italy has the worst ranking in Western Europe on progress toward reducing disparities between men and women. Italy lags behind some African, East European and Asian countries, too, such as […]

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A wine geek explores Jura’s native grapes, Part I (#Winophiles)

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Let’s say you or your friend attended a wine class or two and know the grapes used to make Champagne – Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, for sure, and one of you remembers the third one, Pinot Meunier, too. On team trivia night, you guess a typical red Bordeaux has some percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon and

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Savoie wine – a non-skier’s reason to visit the French Alps (#WinePW)

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After spending some virtual time in Italy’s Valle d’Aosta, I’ve crossed the border to explore the crisp alpine wines of neighboring Savoie, France. If I were traveling by car, the journey would take about 2 ½ hours – or longer, because I’d want to stop frequently to drink in the stunning mountain scenery. At this

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Prosecco, coop-style: What do these tasters say? (#ItalianFWT)

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If you live in farm country, you’re probably familiar with cooperatives. Here in Central Pennsylvania, we have a lot of dairy farms too small to survive on their own. So farmers join forces to market their milk to various plants in the area. But I have to admit – until Kevin at Snarky Wine offered

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One name to get you started on French wine (#Winophiles)

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French. Wine. Together, these may be two of the most intimidating words in our vocabulary. Where to start? When Jeff at foodwineclick challenged the Winophiles blogging group to post advice for a friend new to French wine, I ruminated on this topic for weeks. Alsace, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne – France has a total of 11

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