Briscoe (@slbriscoe)

Latest Wine Headlines: April 14–20

Hello my friends. Happy Spring, Easter, Holy Week, Passover—however and whatever you celebrate, I hope you enjoy it with good friends and shenanigans galore. For those celebrating a bit extra this weekend because, well, Easter and Orthodox Easter fall on the…

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Byline Brag: Where Wine Meets Weed Just in time for 4/20 (which I realize is also Easter this year), you can now read my first feature in Full Pour Magazine. Where Wine Meets Weed is an exploration in the similarities between the aromas, flavors and structural components of both imbibes, meaning cross-category enjoyment can be possible. Yes, you can be both a wine and weed enthusiast.

Byline Brag: Where Wine Meets Weed

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Byline Brag: Green to Its Roots via Somm Journal What does sustainability even mean anymore? “It’s a broad term, isn’t it?” says Leslie Frank, cofounder of Frank Family Vineyards. “You’re hard pressed to find any landowner, vintner, or anyone in the wine industry who’s not ‘sustainable.’” But for Leslie and her husband Richard Frank, owning Napa’s third-oldest winery (and nationally registered historic landmark), stewarding over 380 acres of vineyard property, and crafting notable premium Napa wines “that spans from sparkling to Cabernet and everything in between,” means they continuously seek to improve business practices in an effort to better the life forces both below and above ground, within their local community and throughout the wine industry at large.

Byline Brag: Green to Its Roots via Somm Journal

10.04.2025 17:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Latest Wine Headlines: March 31–April 4 Yo. There's a lot of...stuff...✌️🥂

Briscoe brings you the latest Wine Headlines: March 31–April 4

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Latest Wine Headlines: March 23–28 My friends, this week's list is just as much for me as it is for you. I've been OOO the center of the week on an amazing field trip focused on Regenerative Organic Certified viticultural practices, diving deep into what it means not just in the field, but above ground as well—from animal welfare to the human impacts and, of course, the resulting wine style and quality. Tasty bits coming your way as I work on my assignments about this super important topic that's become a dual personal and professional passion of mine.

Briscoe Brings you the Latest Wine Headlines for March 23–28

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Latest Wine Headlines: March 17–21 So, this week just flew by. But welcome to your weekly wine news round up. Short but sweet. As most of you know the 200% tariff situation continues to dominate headlines. I have only included one on my list this week—the one that I think is the most well-rounded, eloquently stated and explains things in a way that if you're super confused about how this effects the industry on a global and local scale, explains it in a digestible way. But you'll have to scroll aaaaaaalllll the way to the blogs to read it.

Briscoe Brings you the Latest Wine Headlines for March 17–21

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Latest Wine Headlines: March 7–14 Hello my friends. Now full disclosure, there's a lot on the list this week. And my snarky comments get, well, quite snarky. You have been warned. Also, a bit of shameless self-promo: If you've not checked out my latest article on GuildSomm, Vermouth Past & Present, this was a fun one to study explore. I have to give a high-five and shoutout to my girl Kara Newman, spirits writer extraordinare, who hooked me up with some stellar producers who helped me grasp the history and current state of the category as well as Liz Pirnat, spirits educator for the NVWA, who hooked me up with some L1 basics on the topic.

Briscoe Brings you the Latest Wine Headlines: March 7–14

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Byline Brag: Vermouth Past & Present via GuildSomm Vermouth Past & Present: My latest piece for GuildSomm was a fun and challenging one, exploring an oft overlooked and under appreciated drinks category.

Byline Brag: Vermouth Past & Present via GuildSomm

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Latest Wine Headlines: March 1–7 Here we are, end of another week and, if you're like me, lots of catching up to do with the news. No surprise, the leading headlines are all about the tariff conundrum. This may sound naive, but, can't we all just get along? You'll also find some shameless self-promotion, some great scientific studies, and more. Buona lettura. Snarky comments are all my own. ✌️🥂

Briscoe Brings you the Latest Wine Headlines: March 1–7

08.03.2025 17:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Byline Brag: Does it White Wine? For the March/April Spring issue of Sonoma Magazine, I had the pleasure of highlighting one of my favorite local Sonoma winemakers, Cindy Cosco. Take a trip on the way back machine and scroll through this website to its beginnings (I delete nothing lol), and you'll see she's one of the first folks kind enough to send me samples to review on, what was then, a new platform. Since then, we've become very good friends. So I was thrilled at the opportunity to write about some of the new, innovative things this lady is working on at the moment.

Byline Brag! Sonoma Magazine March/April Wine Column: Does it White Wine?

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It’s like REALLY hard having Friday brain on a Thursday…

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Latest Wine Headlines: February 25–February 28 Good Saturday morning to you. As you open this, hopefully cozy in your humble abode, I am up bright and early ready to teach my WSET Level 1 class at the NVWA. I love teaching these lower-level wine education courses. They're super fun and engaging and there's a kind of thrill being the person who's introducing a room full of wine newbies to what could be their next passion—personal or professional. I usually get the most interesting and insightful questions in these classes. It challenges me, keeps me on my feet, and can also be quite humbling.

Briscoe Brings the Latest Wine Headlines: February 25–February 28

01.03.2025 17:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! I 💯 agree with this. that’s why the RVFs kind of “tagline” if you will is “meet farmers where they’re at” and educate them on which program (if any) is the right one for them to pursue accreditation. JFW, for example, isn’t pursuing a cert for this very reason. Cheers Jamie. Thx for reading ✌️

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Byline Brag: The Path to Industry-Wide Adoption of Regenerative Viticulture For regenerative viticulture to make a meaningful impact on the wine industry, it needs to be adopted by both boutique wineries and high-volume producers—can it be done? Bringing you my latest published piece from SevenFifty Daily. While I work on sprucing up my portfolio page, I thought I'd just share it here in the blog roll. Many thanks in advance for reading and sharing!

Byline Brag: The Path to Industry-Wide Adoption of Regenerative Viticulture via SevenFifty Daily

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Latest Wine Headlines: February 18–21 Way too excited for the weekend. How is it that four-day work-weeks can actually be more stressful than a full one? Whatever. Me, I plan to wear my lazy pants and do what lazy pants do best...laze. I highly recommend the stretchy fluffy kind as you lounge about and read some of this week's booze news. Snarky comments are all my own. ✌️🥂

Briscoe brings you the Latest Wine Headlines: February 18–21

22.02.2025 17:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Latest Wine Headlines: February 10–14 Hello, and welcome (back) to your weekly dose of what-I'm-reading, weekly-wine-headlines extravaganza. Not an exhaustive list this week, as I literally decided to (re)start doing this, um, yesterday. 🤷‍♀️😂 What is up with me, you ask? (Or not, too bad.) Working away on more freelance stuff (yay) that I hope to be sharing soon(ish) and also chipping away and cleaning up this old-lady of a website. No major revamp in the near future, but at least get her up and running again. ie: A wee bit 'o' botox, not a full on facelift.

Briscoe brings you the Latest Wine Headlines: February 10–14

15.02.2025 17:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Update, Things, and Stuff - Briscoe Bites Hello my friends. Been another hot minute. As most of you are by now probably aware, I resigned from my post at Wine Enthusiast at the end of 2024. 🙀 Yeah. But I’ve got a few fun updates that have hap...

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Last night Gwar was in my dream. Would be funny if our two otherworlds collided

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Omigod you’d laugh your tushy off if you saw how many wine books I have.

And then even harder when you see all the books I have full stop.

And yet…I can’t seem to stop buying them 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

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Dude I get to study wine…it’s…amaze

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I literally have ALL those books 📚

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Wine flight

Not cards

Weirdo selfie

Tell me your a student of wine without telling me your a student of wine.

Me on the daily #masterofwine grind…

PS: T-shirt reads-“the future of wine is female” ✌️💚🥂

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