Gus Clemens
A-J Media
San Angelo, TX, United States
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Clemens: Wine questions answered
Answers to whimsical wine questions. → Read More
Clemens: Finally, rain in California wine country
After suffering desiccating drought for years, California found itself awash in alluvian floods in 2023. → Read More
Clemens: Glass and its alternatives
Glass wine bottles have enjoyed a long and storied run since they were adopted after advances in glass making in the 1600s. → Read More
Clemens: What is wine?
What is wine? For many, that question was answered thousands of years ago. Wine is grape juice after yeast converts its sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. → Read More
Clemens: Champagne’s rise
The land was sheep country, too far north for grapes. The local wine was mediocre, pawned off to roughhewn wool buyers or consumed by locals as vin de tabl → Read More
Clemens: Wine sales statistics
Which of these statements about the wine industry is correct? Demand decreases, the industry faces rocky times. The industry is doing fine, even if volume is down, value is steady. → Read More
Clemens: Wine is the most interesting drink
Wine is the world’s most interesting alcoholic beverage. You expect wine columnists to make such an assertion, but we can back up the claim. → Read More
Clemens: Wine drinking tips
As life semi-returns to pre-COVID normal, we return to restaurants and order wine. We have folks over for dinner. We pay attention to things besides vaccinations and masks. Observations, tips. → Read More
Clemens: Wine serving rituals
As we hurtle into the new year, answers to pressing wine questions. → Read More
Clemens: Wine an expression of optimism
New year. No matter if you look back on 2022 with a sigh of satisfaction or you are grovelingly thankful to survive another solar circumnavigation, time for optimism. → Read More
Clemens: Start the year with wine good news
Let’s end this year and begin the next on a high note. A Japanese study found people older than age 75 may benefit from a regular glass of wine. → Read More
Clemens: Christmas summer
It is high summer in South America. Time to hit swimming pools and beaches while wishing everyone “Feliz Navidad!” → Read More
Clemens: Five key winemaking decisions
There are five terms you often will find in reports about wine. Understanding what they mean and how they affect wine can help you make choices. A quick review. → Read More
Clemens: Napa agonistes
Once upon a time, Napa Valley was a place of pastoral legend. → Read More
Clemens: Wine world disruption
The pandemic shook the wine world — as it did everything in the world. → Read More
Clemens: Paso Robles
When you think quality California wine, Napa and Sonoma leap to mind. Today, a sound argument can be made to include Paso Robles in the conversation → Read More
Clemens: Thanksgiving 2022
Some people are intimidated by wine choices for the big Thanksgiving family feast. There is no reason for discombobulation. → Read More
Clemens: Everyday, commodity wines
November and December are the heaviest wine-buying months of the year. → Read More
Clemens: Cheap and sweet
The recent death of Fred “Two Buck Chuck” Franzia, gave me pause to think about what the average, non-wine geek enjoys in an occasional glass. → Read More
Clemens: Wine and Halloween candy
Every few years I recklessly throw caution and good judgment to the wind and confront pairing wine with Halloween candy. So here it goes. → Read More