by Monte Belmonte | Dec 17, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines
We are entering into the year 2020. That year sounds fake. Like a future I never imagined myself seeing. Where is my jetpack? Where is my visiphone? Oh, I have that? Nice! 2020 is, of course, an election year. If you are anything like me, you will be doing a lot of...
by Monte Belmonte | Oct 18, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines
Cristián Aliaga thought he wanted to be a dentist. Maybe it was the future prospect of uncovering leftover tuna fish under someone’s dental bridge that made him reconsider. But when it came time to make a decision as to what to study at university in Chile, he...
by Monte Belmonte | Sep 20, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines
“Write drunk, edit sober,” said someone who is not Ernest Hemingway, although the quote is often attributed to him. It’s bad writing advice. Worse advice is “write drunk, edit drunk.” And I wish I could blame my own editing mistake in my last column on either of those...
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...