We recently finished the first barrel rack for the 2010 vintage, and we have quite the collage of different wines in barrel this year. We received fruit exclusively from the Aconcagua Valley, with four distinctive lots each of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon from the Manzur Encón vineyard next to the Putaendo River, Syrah from the [...]

Gnocchi are one of my all-time favorite foods. Potato pasta—what more could I ask? Not just any gnocchi will do, however. The gnocchi sold in grocery stores or even in most restaurants tend to be quite heavy and generally disappointing. The good news is that they are really easy to make at home, with delicious [...]

Flaherty is an Irish name, and Ed is of pure Irish decent… on his dad’s side. His mom, however, is Cuban. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1958, the year before Castro came to power. The family doesn’t eat a lot of Cuban food, though, other than the ubiquitous beans. I’m not exaggerating when I [...]

Ed writes: Our caretaker in Cauquenes is Ismael Enriques, who is 70 years old. He says that when he was a kid, the País vineyard on our property was already old. He remembers helping his dad put the roof on the adobe house on our property when he was ten years old. Don Ismael has [...]

I have been absolutely overwhelmed with translation and editing work lately (which explains the lack of posts here). That’s a good thing, but it does make the rest of life a challenge. It’s the typical working mom’s dilemma: how to run a household while maintaining a full-time job without losing one’s sanity. There isn’t time [...]