The Wine Country

Slovenia is a small wine country with a interesting mixture of influences and climatic conditions. In the north eastern wine growing region of PODRAVJE (named after the Drava river), the wines are more Austrian...

Yoshi - D9 beat me to it. I think the "zinfandel" you are referring to is the "white zinfandel" - which means they use the red grapes, but they quickly remove the skin so the color of the wine is pink (and much less...

To GregT: I will poste a short "introductory post" soon. Hopefully next week, with some stats about Slovenia as a wine country. p.s.: the answer to the first question is yes. I own the largest wine shop in the capital -...

Two Chefs Compare Notes One's a little country, one's a little big city. I’ve read a lot of cookbooks in my life. Some are indispensible reference works, some are entirely dispensable regifts, and...

Good advice from Rfrainey! I recommend 3 days in Florence quite frequently. The first three days are ideal. It's a very English language friendly city so it helps one ease into the Italian lifestyle. There is a lot to...

I already have tickets to this event and I'm excited to get my hands dirty as well as meeting more wine lovers. Sometimes I feel like my schedule is so packed that I don't have time to go over to the west coast or out of...

I hope to put together a larger article on the Umpqua Valley AVA soon, in the meantime, I will cover some of the more unusual varietals that our region offers. It may be interesting to know that Roseburg is on the same...

Expectations and experience tend to soften excitement in wine, muffling the high pitch of greatness to meager moans. It can be difficult to savor the high highs once a sensory resume has been established, just as the...

An interesting piece on Chilean wines that I just ran across: http://wineclub-international.com/main-tips.htm The article is a couple of years old, now, but remains pertinent. The major chunk of the piece is on Chilean...

I'm going to cheat and name 3. For me it was not so much a single wine as it was a wine country experience. Somewhere in the early 90s. And the 3 wines I have vivid memories of, which kick-started my obsession, were...