by Mike Dunne | Jan 22, 2023 | Blog
This exercise should end my recent preoccupation with ChatGPT, the hugely popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) program meant principally for customer-service dialogue but raising concerns that it also could be exploited to create unoriginal and uncredited term papers,...
by Mike Dunne | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog
Just back from the frozen hamlet of Cloverdale in northern Sonoma County, where the Citrus Fairgrounds this past week played host to the 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The Chronicle is the nation’s largest wine competition, this year drawing some 5500...
by Mike Dunne | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
Sacramento’s hospitality trade is to get a shot of adrenaline, personality and money next week when an anticipated 12,000 persons roll into town for the 29th Unified Grape & Wine Symposium. The nation’s largest wine conference, Unified will be staged mostly at the...
by Mike Dunne | Dec 28, 2022 | Blog
Brothers Tyler and Trevor Grace make wine at their family’s Lewis Grace Winery in the Apple Hill district just outside Placerville in El Dorado County. They harvest grapes from the same estate vineyard. They make wine side by side in the same cellar. They sometimes...
by Mike Dunne | Dec 22, 2022 | Blog
Two of the more intriguing and instructive wines I tasted during 2022 could serve as bookends for this year’s wine-competition circuit. The first was in January, at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in Cloverdale, Sonoma County. There, my assignment was to...
