Tickets are on sale now for South Walton Beaches Wine and Food Festival, taking place April 27 – April 30, 2017, with another prestigious lineup of celebrity winemaker appearances. Among the headliners are renowned winemaker and CEO of Jackson Family Wines, Don Hartford, and Glenn C. Salva, longtime Napa winemaker with Antica Napa Valley. Salva…
Overland Park, KS – TopConsumerReviews.com recently gave a best-in-class 5 star rating to Cellar’s Wine Club, an industry leader in Wine Clubs. Wine clubs provide both a fun and tasteful experience for any recipient. They facilitate the opportunity to try wines from unique and wonderful wineries in various regions and countries – places that most…
2nd Annual Glorious Bites Competition Opens for Entries Sonoma, CA —Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards, producer of California’s most awarded sparkling wines, is once again searching for the most glorious appetizer recipe in the country to pair with its Sonoma Brut. Budding home cooks age 21 and over are encouraged to channel their inner-foodie and…
New Dan Berger International Cider Competition Attracts More than 200 Entries (Santa Rosa, CALIF) A cidery from Washington state was the big winner at the first-ever Dan Bergers International Cider Competition, held in May in Santa Rosa, California. Staged in conjunction with Dan Bergers International Wine Competition, the cider competition drew more than 200 entrants…
There are certain wine and spirit distributors that are known for representing a lot of producers of, well, plonk, and keeping strangle holds on their regions that prevent higher quality products to be available for the consumer. Henry Wine Group is absolutely not one of these kinds of distributors. Per their website, Henry Wine…
In spite of the great seminars and meals around town, the most exciting parts of the weekend for me were still the big Opening and Closing Tastings. As mentioned previously, the tastings featured 145 tasting tables at which to taste the wide variety of what the Rhone wines have to offer. With an understandably heavy-Central…
There is nothing like a great start to a New Year and 2016 has roared in with style. That strange substance known as rain has returned to California and we are all hoping for the end of the drought. My favorite basketball team, the Golden State Warriors are rolling after a world championship from last…
After I did a couple of stints as a wine judge, and was further introduced to the amazing array of grape varietals coming from the U.S., I wanted to educate my palate further. I felt confident that I knew some of the wines from California, Washington state, Oregon…but nothing much beyond that. Selfishly I wanted…
Upcoming wine tasting event showcases prestigious collectable wines from California and Washington; over 150 wines from 40 top Cabernet producers on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015 at PENINSULA Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills, California – wineLA has exceeded annual expectations and has procured the best ever – STARS of Cabernet gathering. “All Cabernet producers are now confirmed…
I was a little fretful…panicked is actually the right word, about judging the Long Beach Grand Cru for two days after only serving as a guest judge in the LA Wine Competition two years ago…once. I recognized the names of some of the judges, and personally knew quite a few, but I thought I better…