Is This Man Making Napa Wines Taste All the Same?
Is This Man Making Napa Wines Taste All the Same? It was the Facebook post heard around the wine world. On February 26, during Premiere Napa Valley week, influential wine writer Karen MacNeil posted these words alongside a photo from the Atelier Melka tasting: “All of these wineries employ the consultant Philippe Melka. All of these wineries make plush, soft, well-structured, very expensive Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Is it a problem if many of them taste largely the same? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.” The post might almost have gone unnoticed outside of insider… Read More



