Sure, I don’t mind driving down to the Luxe Rodeo Drive Hotel on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills (with the hoards of summer tourists) and then up to the penthouse suite to learn about and taste South African wines. I knew it would be worth it, and more. This was the info that came with…
Last time we visited the grand Clos Pegase was…before I started writing about wine! Over ten years! Eddie, the husband, looked for photos…and lo and behold we were there February 6, 2004! Definitely overdue for a visit! And gotta hump that thumb again! Visiting Clos Pegase – Over A Decade Later This “need for a…
TEMECULA VALLEY, Calif. (PRWEB) – Visit Temecula Valley (VTV), in coordination with Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association (TVWA), has announced the winners of the second annual People’s Choice Blind Tasting. The event took place on Sunday, November 12, 2017, at Leoness Cellars, and featured a walk-around blind tasting, a wine seminar led by Master of Wine…
Not sure how many locals had mentioned Hourglass Winery to me but enough that my whistle was sufficiently whetted. I sought out an appointment and, lucky for me, gained admission. Driving up a small road off the Silverado Trail in Calistoga a small brass sign depicting an hourglass led me in the right direction. At…
In a leap from the standard expectations in a winery tasting room, Acumen hosts seated tastings in a bright and modern wine gallery.online pharmacy https://shop.fargoderm.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/furosemide.html no prescription drugstore The large original paintings frame the tasting room, each with a splash of white to mimic Napa fog, as you settle in with wine glasses, tasting notes…
I am not one to ever pass up an opportunity to bemoan the fact that my wife Karen fractured her leg on our last wine trip and we had to cut our trip short. … so nope, this is not an article about our travels. Rather, Along The California Wine Trail is a book, although…
I’m a fan of The Farm Winery wines. In reading their latest newsletter it made me think: I find so many people either don’t know that winemaking isn’t all glamour and/or they really don’t think about or appreciate what work goes into every bottle. The latter is probably the most pervasive and is why I…
Eve, here are the extra credit papers. I think the students were very kind… almost all have never really experienced a wine course like the one I teach… so they were viewing the video and comparing it to what they have experienced in the course… with that said, I hope you enjoy reading. Scott Richardson,…
A Continuation of Abe Schoener’s [The Scholium Project]… A NEW LESSON IN THE MORAL NATURE OF WINEMAKING: LES JARDINS DES ESMÉRALDINS The Wines: Transcendental and somehow Historical at once When we taste, he is very eager for our impressions, our reactions. He watches our faces, especially our eyes, carefully. He is clearly proud of how…
A Continuation of Abe Schoener’s [The Scholium Project]… A NEW LESSON IN THE MORAL NATURE OF WINEMAKING: LES JARDINS DES ESMÉRALDINS Questions of Technique: the Beginning of Thinking The first bottle is a white wine from 2004. He makes only two wines, one red, one white. The white, 100% Chenin. Six years in barrel before…