Napa – The world premiere of Chianti Classico’s new top tier wine, Gran Selezione, drew an exceptional audience of local and international trade and media to the historic Palazzo Vecchio in Florence this past February. The new wine category is a result of a radical revamping of the historic Tuscan DOCG.online pharmacy https://www.dino-dds.com/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/inc/new/priligy.html no prescription…
Verde Valley (Green) is now producing some very exciting wines. Verde Valley is also excelling in the realm of organic wines. Where is Verde valley? Jerome, Arizona, of course. Not only is this unlikely region producing wines of distinction, they are the vision of one whom some may consider, an unlikely source. Caduceus Cellars is…
I woke up one morning to a message from friend and fellow Eve’s Wine 101 contributor Gregory Alonzo: “Hi Michael … Recently I have had several emails from European acquaintances who want to know more about our Zinfandel, especially those of higher alcohol content. As you probably know, California Zin is tough to find in…
Our annual Earth Day Food & Wine Weekend is jam packed with … well … a lot of food and wine! That’s not all we’ve got planned, however. Here’s a look at five non-edible delights on tap. Purchase Tickets | Who’s Here ONE: Owls and Falcons and Hawks, Oh My! Raptors — aka birds such as owls, falcons and hawks —…
Before I knew Steve Martin to be a winemaker I knew him to be a “spinster”. When we saw each other weekly at a local gym he once took the seat off of my spin bike before class and suggested we do the hour standing. I took the challenge and survived. My latest visit with…
A wise man once said that before one can understand anything properly, one has to learn how to love it. For me, this holds true with both wine and women. It seems that the bulk of my time is spent with the pleasurable task of trying to understand the qualities and complexities of wine and…
In this, maybe my sixth visit to Del Dotto, I knew winemaker Gerard Zanzonico had a plane to catch so I suggested we skip the barrel tasting and limit ourselves to whatever he had in bottle. So what did he do? He pulled barrel tastings and put them in bottles for us to taste. The…
Law Estate Wines www.lawestatewines.com We first tasted the wines from Law Estate at the Ojai Wine Festival last Summer and were immediately blown away by their quality. We knew we had to visit them on our next trip to Paso Robles. Although the tasting room is not yet open, we had the opportunity to visit…
Region’s well-known fog, cooling winds, and mild growing conditions make for a hallmark vintage As the last truckloads of grapes come in across California, it’s clear that Monterey County’s Arroyo Seco American Viticulture Area (AVA) has experienced a keystone vintage that will go down in history as one of the region’s best. “To sum up, Mother Nature…
According to Greek Mythology, it was the God of pleasure and wine, Dionysus himself who first brought grape vines to Sicily. As we all know, there is always some basis to both legend and folklore. Archeological evidence places Mycenaean traders, as early as 1500 BCE, cultivating grapes on Sicily’s Aeolian Islands. By the 8th century…