New Year's

After working for Cayuga wineries for many years, I am still in love with what this region has to offer. I find myself missing everything about creating these wines - planting, tending, harvesting, tasting... - but mostly...

I grew up In Rochester, so I know the Finger Lakes fairly well. I like Lamoreaux Landing, Red Newt, and Standing Stone, also Lafayette Reneau and Herman J Wiemer. Sheldrake Point and Hosmer are also very good. There are...

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...

First off, thanks for the summary. Like you, I'm finding some great finds in Washington but the prices keep going up! I do like the wines from Magnificent Wine Co as they represent solid value if not super quality....

The Barossa Valley clearly provides a consistent array of pretty impressive stuff - although admittedly, the chocolate mousse intensity of some highly extracted Shiraz examples from the better vintages can be tiring on...

Goulash: The ultimate comfort food Zinfandel: The ultimate comfort wine Nostalgia is a powerful thing, especially when it comes to food.  Having grown up only blocks away from some of the best...

Since this subject never gets discussed on Snooth, I'm throwing out a challenge regarding New World sparkling wines. What are the sparkling wines we've found from the New World that are as good as, or in many cases better...

Some more special Slovenian (Slovene) wine in the USA: Batičs' Cabernet Franc - also on snooth; barrique Cab Fr with great aromas and rich full body. Batičs' Pinot Gris - Macertaed and wood treated wine with powerfull...

Well you got me going, Greg, so I went back and looked at my wine purchases over the past year. My online/mailorder purchases were exactly 24 cases. 12 from US producers and 12 from those in the rest of the wine world....

I agree with you that Port does not get the recognition it deserves... in Australia, Rutherglen, VIC is considered the best region for fortifieds and Seppelt being the front runner. Check this link;...