When we were looking for our final winery to visit during our most recent trip to the Dry Creek Valley area, we really wanted a place that would be new to us and to our readers but at the same time be of extremely high quality. We think we did pretty well. Tim Bucher grew…
When we first heard of Folded Hills, we were excited that we were going to try a new winery. Folded Hills was definitely new to us, although Eve’s Wine 101’s own Eve Bushman wrote about a tasting of their wines that she attended in early 2020: www.evewine101.com/2020/02/28/discovering-folded-hills-winery-plus-winemaker-angela-osborne/ The winery itself is also fairly new. The…
Known for its three wine regions of Verde Valley, Wilcox and Sonoita/Elgin, and tasting rooms throughout the state, Arizona is an emerging wine producer–creators of many wonderful wines and there are more to come with a bevy of emerging wineries. Although its history goes back to the 1700s, it was discovered as a wine growing…
After months of no winery visits, we finally got out and about. But, something about us had changed. While we still love red wine A LOT, we have been drinking mostly whites during our stay at home and espousing our newfound “healthier diet and lighter wine to go with it” lifestyle to anyone who will…
The curving drive through the woods on Peachy Canyon Drive only heightens the anticipation of arriving at the gates that provide entry to Law Estate Wines and the experience it and the winery staff provide. But it wasn’t always this way. Our first taste of Law Estate was when they were pouring their first vintage…
Pretty excited to have these women (virtually) in my home – Dr. Laura Catena, Bodegas Catena Zapata & Bodegas CARO (Mendoza, Argentina); Anne Trimbach, Trimbach (Alsace, France); Laure Colombo, Vins Jean-Luc Colombo (Cornas, Rhone Valley, France); and Alessia Collauto Travaglini, Travaglini (Gattinara, Piemonte, Italy)! Do you recognize some of those last names? You should as they are also names of their family wineries….
Once again the #LAWineWriters met up at Napa Valley Grille in Westwood to have a wine paired luncheon. This time organizer and fellow writer Cori Solomon invited us to taste through some new Rhone wines – Grenache predominant – from a winery in the Santa Ynez AVA: Folded Hills Winery Farmstead Ranch. We were greeted…
The Rhone Rangers rode into the Skirball last weekend and as a major Rhone wine lover I was thrilled to attend the tasting again. A seminar and luncheon was also offered in the day’s events, see an upcoming article from Contributing Editor Michael Perlis as he covered that portion. Wine 101ers: What is a Rhône…
Santa Barbara, California; May 28, 2019 – Doug Margerum and the Margerum Wine Company announce the opening of their new tasting room at the Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara, California. The Margerum Wine Company tasting room offers distinctive flights and wines by the glass from their premium wines produced at their state-of-the-art Buellton winery. Leading…
My husband Eddie and I spending a day wine tasting in Santa Clarita (SCV) is not news. But wine tasting at two different vineyards within ten minutes of our house in SCV is. Chris and Jeannie Carpenter of Newhall have a cellar I have long coveted. Free standing and temperature controlled, with an attached sitting…