Category: Wine Activities
California’s Best Pinot Noir: A Report From Pinot Days 2006
Well folks, I’m here to tell you. The 2005 vintage of Pinot Noir in California looks to be an excellent
WBW#23 Has Been Anounced: Fire Up The Barbie!
My favorite bit of food I ever personally cooked over an open flame was a piece of frozen elk meat,

Pinot Days Grand Tasting: Sunday June 25, San Francisco
Pinot Noir lovers would do well to block off a few hours of their Sunday next week to attend the
WBW22 Roundup Has Been Posted
Feeling like that stuff in your glass is a little too potent? Wish you could drink more than a glass

2001 Vignerons du Quercy “Les Hauts Lastour” Red wine, Coteaux du Quercy (Cahors), France
Ask anyone in the wine business, or any serious wine snob what the top five most salient “issues” are in

The Best 2004 Napa Cabernet: Tasting Notes From Auction Napa Valley 2006
I’ve just returned from a yearly fete that a fanciful movie director might call Napa’s Big Weekend. Auction Napa Valley
What To Drink With Dinner: The WBW21 and IMBB26 Roundup
Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW for short) as regular readers know, is a virtual wine tasting party, where bloggers all over

The Golden Glass Tasting Event, June 10th, San Francisco
One of the earliest movies I remember seeing was Jason and the Argonauts, an epic fantasy that combined stop motion
WBW22 Has Been Announced: Low Alchohol Reds
The next incarnation of the popular virtual wine tasting event Wine Blogging Wednesday has been announced. Hosted by Tim over

Auction Napa Valley, June 1-4, Napa, CA
There are only two things to do in Napa the first weekend in June: live it up or avoid it

2002 Paloma Merlot, Spring Mountain District, Napa
Today is Wine Blogging Wednesday. What’s that you say? It’s actually Friday? Listen, don’t ask me why, all of a

Lodi Zinfest, Saturday May 20, Lodi, CA
There’s more to the small town in the Sierra Foothills than the famous Creedence Clearwater Revival song might lend you
Paso Robles Wine Festival, May 19, 20, & 21
If you missed the Paso Robles event here in San Francisco, and you don’t mind driving a bit, or if
WBW#21 Has Been Announced: Food with Your Wine
May 19th might become known as Founders’ day in the food and wine blogging world. That’s the date of the

Paso Robles Comes to San Francisco: May 2, 2006
I really like Paso Robles wine, but it’s just so far away. If you’re like me, the three and a
Where To Go. According To Food & Wine
Despite the fact that the web is expanding, at this point faster than the universe itself is expanding, it seems,
WBW#20 Wrap Up Has Been Posted
I was too busy drinking Malbec on a river raft last week in Northern Patagonia to participate in Wine Blogging

California’s Best Syrah: Tasting The Rhone Rangers 2006
Two weeks ago, the annual Rhone Rangers tasting returned to San Francisco, bringing producers of Rhone varietals from all over