For a long time, I’ve focused on whether a wine provides me with a pure and clean expression of fruit. But now along comes Abe Schoener, winemaker and owner of the Scholium Project (http://scholiumwines.com/), and changes all of that. Recently, we had the pleasure to attend a barrel tasting of Scholium Project wines, led by…
Oh, that elusive reference wine drinkers make to “terroir” sets my wine 101 readers to wonder…what the heck is this person trying to say with that one word? Short answer: Everything that went into getting that grape to become that wine. According to the Oxford Dictionary, terroir is “The complete natural environment in which a…
The label on a wine bottle tells you the vintage year, which is also the year that the grapes were harvested. What the label doesn’t tell you is what happened that year and why you should choose one year over another. For example, we are in a drought right now which we may not remember…
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…
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140+ Wineries Are Set to Host Individual Events October 17 – 19, 2014 in Wine Enthusiast’s Wine Region of the Year Harvest in Paso Robles Wine Country is a time of excitement and anticipation shared by winemakers, growers, and tasting room staff alike. It is the culmination of a successful year of hard work and…
Rocca Family Vineyards is proud to be named the Napa Valley Organic Winery of The Year at the prestigious 2014 New York International Wine Competition. “This award is especially meaningful to us,” says winemaker Paul Colantuoni, “as our organic farming practices speak to the very heart of our winemaking philosophy at Rocca.buy red viagra online…
Fourth annual Garagiste Wine Festival flagship event expands to Ponderosa Pavilion at Paso Robles Fairgrounds and other local venues for four days of tastings and educational events, featuring over 50 artisan garagiste winemakers; over 500 Angelenos tasted wines from over 48 micro-production winemakers at sell-out Urban Exposure at Union Station. On the heels of this…
The latest episode of WINERAM Productions WINERAM Australia series, in which the filmmakers successfully completed the worlds first documented shark cage wine tasting, is now available on Hulu and Hulu Plus. To view the episode online, please visit http://www.hulu.com/wineram. (Additional photos here) WINERAM Australia is a documentary series that targets the Generation Y Demographic in…
People are often very willing and very good at volunteering information explaining their actions. But those explanations, particularly when it comes to the kinds of spontaneous opinions and decisions that arise out of the unconscious, aren’t necessarily correct. Consumer responses during market surveys can often be misleading. A study by the Cheskin company involved…