Over 48 ‘Garagistes’ poured over 30 varietals over 4 days of events; Amy Butler of Ranchero Cellars Wins Second Annual “Spirit of Garagiste” Award The Garagiste Festival announced today that it is donating $10,000 from proceeds raised at the 2012 Festival to the Cal Poly Wine and Viticulture Program. The festival also announced that Amy…
Wine Discovery of the Week: My Maryland Taster’s Guild pal, Susan Southard, came for a visit with – you guessed it – Maryland wine. We had a small group of mutual Facebook friends over and…we all thought the Black Ankle Vineyards 07 Leaf Stone Syrah was one of the best wines on our lazy Susan…
The San Francisco International Wine Competition was held in June of this year at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Over 4,000 wines were tasted, and medals were awarded as follows: 202 Double Gold Medals. 363 Gold Medals. 1,358 Silver Medals. 1,613 Bronze Medals. While any medal would indicate that the wine is of high quality,…
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Sutter Home Family Vineyards today announced the 2012 kick-off of the 21st annual Build a Better Burger Recipe contest and cook-off. The contest is now officially open for recipe submissions, closing September 3, 2012. Finalists will compete for the $100,000 grand prize for the winning all-beef burger, and a $15,000 prize for the winning alternative…
Often speaking on wine education, impromptu and planned, I realize that for someone that espouses to write for beginners, I haven’t done much on that score…lately. So, prompted by a couple of questions in the last week – “Which wine will make my wife want to have sex with me?https://landmarkfamilydental.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/jpg/propecia.html ” being the most explosive…
Robert Simon owns two wonderful restaurants in Pasadena: a/k/a an American Bistro (www.akabistro.com) and Bistro 45 (www.bistro45.com). It had been way too long since we had visited either. But then we received the following via email: Edibles for Epicureans Events and Wine Dinners In the continuing tradition of Bistro 45’s discovery of new wineries and…
I drove myself down to Woodland Hills recently to meet with wine importer of the year Alex Guarachi, the CEO of TGIC (Thank God it’s Chilean) to learn about Chile’s Carmenere grape, TGIC distributing California wines – including Alex’s own Guarachi Family Wines label – and to do some tasting! Oh, and did I mention,…
I first met all four Hipsters that form the wine writing group, Hipster Enology, at a Rhone Rangers event I think. Attracted to their hipster look, their witty repartee that transferred well into writing and…their taste for adventure. That attitude, and heartfelt interest in all things wine, has led two of the four (Jesse Hiestand…
George M. Taber, made famous in the wine world for writing about how Napa winemaking beat out France in the infamous Judgment of Paris tasting, has a new offering, it would seem, for those of us thwarted in our wine buying by the current economic woes felt nationwide, in his book A Toast to Bargain…