What’s the one thing that you must have when you visit wine country? A driver? A roadmap? Reservations? Okay, there’s more than one thing. But for me, the one thing I don’t want to leave out is: A Plan. And the only way to get said plan is to research. Talking to friends, Internet search…
Floriane Eznack, the poised young (30ish) female cellar master and head winemaker at Champagne Jacquart since 2011– not many women have made this jump in Champagne or much of the whole of France – met our group of #LAWineWriters in the beautiful outdoor setting of the Luxe Hotel’s “On Sunset Restaurant” in Brentwood a couple…
Go on the website for Crawford Family Wines and you will see photos of a family that look torn from a fashion catalog…surely they can’t be that good-looking and produce amazing wines. But, they are and they do. In fact, the quick snap I took of winemaker and family head, Mark Horvath, during our group…
Popular Rosé Joins Their Award-Winning Ranks Paso Robles, CA – After the 2015 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition awarded Mystic Hills Vineyard’s 2011 Unforgiven red blend a Gold Medal and both their 2011 Sequel red blend and 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon received Silver Medals, they didn’t slowed down. Their newly released Rosé has received nothing but…
I met Count Audoin de Dampierre at a small tasting that Guy LeLarge held at The Oaks Grille in TPC Valencia a few years back. I was quite taken with the man and the Champagne. I’ve since enjoyed his Champagne, in fact it’s my favorite, at Valencia Wine Company’s annual Holiday Tasting, at Valencia Wine…
Recently I was thrilled to meet one of my Facebook wine friends in real life: Carmen Russo. We both attended Kirk and Nicole Stinson’s 4th of July party and met, don’t you know, over wine. I had brought a couple of “picnic” wines, a French Rose and New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, while Carmen brought wine…
For the past seven years that I’ve been writing about wine I would annually run an “All Events” column simply because not everyone, for some strange reason, gets our weekly Dear Wine Friend e-newsletter (email me to sign up: Eve@EveWine101.com) that lists events. I also tend to write these out in a column when there…
It is rare to go to a major tasting event and have one winery, one family’s story about how they came to make their wines and why they make what they do, stand out long after actually tasting their wines. As tasting events go, the Garagiste Festival in Paso Robles is simply fun. Smallish, intimate…
The winding line of expectant foodies serpentined outside and into the lobby of Cal Mart, more than ready to attack the food at L.A. Weekly’s The Essentials 2015 event. Just when I was considering giving up, the line moved, and moved, and moved again. Soon we were to be rewarded with a giant open space…