Messages in a Bottle: The Dog Days of Wine
Stacked akimbo in the corner of my kitchen table, now leaning at a somewhat crazy angle, is the two-month-old pile
Casa Nuestra Winery, St. Helena: Current Releases
Deep in the heart of the Napa Valley there lies a winery like no other. The last bastion of fun
America’s Best New Chefs for 2005
Thanks to a tip from The Daily Olive, I learned that Food and Wine Magazine has announced their list of
WBW #11 Roundup has been posted
Beau has posted his roundup of Wine Blogging Wednesday #11, Off-Dry Wines for the reading pleasure of all. Check out
The ’96 White Burgundy Time Bomb
I don’t have a lot of room or patience for aging wines. I tuck a few bottles away for a
1994 Zind Humbrecht “Heimbourg” Gewurztraminer Vendange Tardive, Turkheim, Alsace
Today we are exploring off-dry wines as part of the monthly virtual tasting event known as Wine Blogging Wednesday. This
The wine story of the 20th Century
I couldn’t help but pass on this nice little story from the Chronicle about the “tasting heard round the world”
2003 Jeff Runquist “R” Barbera, Amador County, CA
During the Gold Rush, when the Italian immigrants came west across the plains and through the rugged mountainous section of
2002 Domaine Taluau-Foltzenlogel “Vieilles Vignes” Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Loire Valley, France
I’m sure I’m going to end up on some Homeland Security watch list, or at least on the Republican National
How to Hold a World Class Wine Tasting Event
I go to a lot of big, public and trade-only wine tastings, some of which are great, and others of
Talking Wine Labels. What Won’t They Think Of?
A-HA! Maybe THIS will make French wine labels easier to understand! Apparently some product packaging genius* has come up with
Extravaganza For The Senses: July 16th, Los Angeles
OK all you wine lovers in Los Angeles, listen up. July 16th marks the 8th annual Extravaganza For The Senses,
California’s Best Pinot Noirs?: I’m Still Recovering From Pinot Days
Don’t think you’d ever get tired of drinking Pinot Noir? Try tasting 200 of them on a single day. I
Look Out NY, Here Comes CA, (and Vice Versa)
OK. Now we can say that the May Supreme Court decision has actually changed something. Wildly misunderstood, this ruling simply
Hollywood takes another shot at wine
There’s a new wine show in the works apparently, perhaps following on the tradition of John Cleese’s Wine For The
Un-Corking Wine: Technology To Save Spoiled Bottles
Even as I post this I’m shaking my head in disbelief. I haven’t heard as outrageous a claim for a
1980 Beringer Vineyards Private Reserve “Lemmon-Chabot Vineyard” Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa
The only way to start a story about Beringer Winery is: Once Upon A Time, there were two brothers, Frederick
A New Category: Older Vintages
Today I am inaugurating a new category of wine reviews focusing on older vintages. Sometimes called “library wines” these wines
It’s Restaurant Week in New York (6/20 – 7/1)
Well, technically this post should have gone up on Monday, but it got lost in the shuffle. The important thing
