An exploding wine scene in Pittsburgh, PA
A liquor license in Western Pennsylvania can cost $250,000. What has grown up in its absence is a bring-your-own-bottle culture that turns out to be the best of both worlds.
The journal
Field notes from the vineyard and the trade.
What the certifications are worth, what the weather is doing to terroir, who does the picking — and the wines found along the way.
Written by Sandra E. Taylor
- Posts
- 9
- Subjects
- 5
- Written
- 2017–2025
Read by subject
Five subjects, one argument.
Sustainability is usually read as environmental stewardship alone. These posts keep pulling it back to the whole of it — the climate that is rewriting terroir, the people who work the rows, and the market that decides whether any of it pays.
The long version is a book.
Everything argued here — what the words on a label mean, what the certifications audit, which producers have earned them — worked through bottle by bottle, with lists by varietal and region.