Back Block Wine

Is it worth the risk? Certainly to some. The whole issue brings me back (again) to a guy named David Molyneaux-Berry, speaking at the Taste3 Conference concerning fakes, how to flush them out, and some of the things he...

Juice on the Block" will be a collection of content about wine at auction. There are a good deal of good deals to be had (particularly now, Autumn '09) at auction, and it will be part of the goal of this group to track...

Wine Guerrilla: Defender of Old Vine Zinfandel Wine Guerilla is a specialist operation run by Bruce Patch, who is intent on sourcing great fruit from some of Sonoma’s best vineyard sites to create...

Benziger - Making a difference one vine at a time. When you visit the Benziger Estate vineyards you know something special is going on. The sight of so many vineyard blocks carefully eased into each contour of this...

To rar8888, My wife and I went with another couple we know our first event was a tour at Mondavi; The Kalon vineyard trek tour. We arrived to meet Peter our tour guide; he was polite and informative. We loaded up(just...

California’s Sierra foothills appellation spans across some of the least heralded great wine producing regions of the state. Unlike Napa and Sonoma, Cabernet Sauvignon did not serve as a historic touchstone here, though...

To everyone that's been following these posts, this was the final leg of our journey. I really hope these posts were helpful and enjoyable. I know I had a great time reliving it all through my notes. And so unto the...

Well the 2005 Barolos are tasted, and I can’t help but think back to what I said last year. 2005 is a successful vintage that reflects terroir and winemaking more than weather and will need more time to be as...

Alba Wine Exhibition 2005 Barolo tasting notes Well the 2005 Barolos are tasted and I can’t help but think back to what I said last year. 2005 is a successful vintage that reflects terroir and winemaking more than...

When a notion gets into Brad Kane’s head, he can become extremely insistent about it. He loves planning themed tastings. Verticals, horizontals, vertizontals, transversals, metarregionals... So, for a few months he’d...