Dewazakura Shuzo “Oka” Namazake Junmai Ginjo, Yamagata Prefecture
If there was a single sake that might be responsible for the fact that you now see sake on all
Chicago Wine & Food Festival: October 21, 22, 2005
Before the wind starts to blow cold off the lake and your eyeballs want to crack and fall out of
The Gender Gap vs. The Consumer Gap In Wine
There are an incredible number of individual wines and entire new wine brands hitting the market right now expressly targeted
The NEW Crackpot Christmas Wine Gift
Yes, it’s a little early, but when Mike, one of my readers, sent me this story I knew that there
2003 Belle Glos “Clark & Telephone Vineyard” Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, CA
So let’s say you’re a winemaker. You have a winery. You’ve been making Cabernet for maybe 50 years. You’ve made
Some Facts About California Wine
I’m not sure how much anyone cares, but here are some interesting current facts and figures about the California wine
2nd Annual Robert M. Parker, Jr. Wine Tasting, St. Helena, Oct. 20th
Earlier this week I wrote about the stages of a self-education in wine. In one of those stages the curious
WBW#14 Roundup Has Been Posted
What do you drink when you have to drink Pinot Noir but it can’t be from France or the West
2004 Quinta do Alqueve Fernão Pires, Ribetejano, Portugal
Perhaps we can make this week be about fantastic wine bargains. Earlier in the week I blogged about a great
Messages In a Bottle: The 5 Stages of a Self Education in Wine
In the course of putting on wine dinners, attending and hosting wine tastings, and generally just drinking wine in public,
Pinot On The River Festival: October 28-30, Guerneville, CA
This is one of my favorite times of year in Northern California. We’ve lost the hard heat of the summer
2001 Syren Pinot Noir, Central Otago, New Zealand
If you you take all the Pinot Noir winegrowing regions of the world and you subtract out all that are
A Case of The Vapors: Labor Day
[Editors note: This piece was written by Steve Edmunds in 2001, but since harvest is taking place at this very
The Rise of the $100 Bottle
Thanks to Deena at Viti-Culture for the tip-off on a great six-year-old article in the Economist about the history, influences,
For the Wine Lover Who Has Everything
Thanks to the folks over at Luxist for digging up what will certainly be the, mark my words, hot wine
Dan Berger on The Five Levels of Wine
Here’s an interesting article from Napa resident and well-known wine writer Dan Berger about the different levels of wine —
Wine & Spirits’ Top 100 Tasting, October 12, San Francisco
Pssst. Want the scoop on an invitation only wine tasting event in San Francisco? OK. So this isn’t top secret,
2001 Ruston Family Vineyards Cabernet, St. Helena, Napa
There still are bits of authentic Napa valley tucked into the side valleys and nooks and crannies of a valley
Vines in Space
It was only a matter of time before some crazy rich winemaker decided to get himself blasted into space carrying
