Neal Hulkower

July 31, 2026 Remy Wines celebrates 20 years– and has redefined what a small winery can accomplish By Neal D. Hulkower In a short piece recognizing Remy Wines’ 10th anniversary (see “Remy Wines Celebrates 10” in OWP August 2016), I wrote: “Over the next decade, Drabkin says she has no ambitious plans, just refinements and improvements.

Neal Hulkower reviews Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine by Alex Maltman. First, a question: After his Vineyards, Rocks, & Soils: The Wine Lover’s Guide to Geology (Oxford University Press, 2018), Alex Maltman’s brilliant broadside against the nearly universal and frequently literal use of minerality in wine tasting notes, why is another book needed? For one, the message hasn’t completely sunk into the psyche of most wine communicators.

Neal D Hulkower reviews The Cynic’s Guide to Wine by Sunny Hodge. He had me at cation exchange. Sunny Hodge is my kind of wine writer. He recognizes that “something is fundamentally broken with the way we have all come to understand wine” (p.9) and wrote The Cynic’s Guide to Wine to do something about it.