Recently we accepted an invitation to a rare event, a vertical tasting of Cabernet Sauvignon reserves from Robert Mondavi’s esteemed To Kalon vineyard (pronounced Toe-kah-lawn). Wineaux wine bar in Las Vegas started us off with a 2022 To Kalon Reserve Fumé Blanc which was then followed by the To Kalon Cabernet reserves from 2013, 2014,…
LOS ANGELES — The Collins College of Hospitality Management at Cal Poly Pomona recently hosted an extraordinary fundraising event featuring a complete 26-year vertical tasting of Robert Mondavi Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon spanning 1982-2007. The exceptional experience, hosted at the prestigious Jonathan Club in Los Angeles, celebrated the College’s long-standing relationship with the Mondavi family while…
Largest & Most Distinguished US Wine & Spirits Distributor Association’s Competition Awards Ten Medals to Royal Wine Corp Bayonne, NJ – The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) Tasting Competition has awarded top honors to Royal Wine Corp, a producer, importer and distributor of the finest kosher wines and spirits, headquartered in Bayonne, NJ. In total…
“It’s one from the cellar tonight, Eddie!” Looking for something to try, that ended up scoring well with the critics, I got my corkscrew into a St-Emilion 2009 Chateau Monbousquet with my husband Eddie’s blessing. It had been a bit since my last one bottle post so I got my pen and pad ready too….
We have always loved the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux (abbreviated to UGCB now, formerly it was UGC) wine tasting in Los Angeles every year. Last year they offered it in San Francisco, and now that we reside in Las Vegas we didn’t want to fly there to attend. However, friends that did raved…
VANCOUVER, Wash., /PRNewswire/ — The Wine Market Journal, the world’s top resource for rare wine valuation, has released its list of the top appreciating wines for 2024. “Two thousand twenty-four was a challenging year for much of the alcohol industry, but high-end wines provided a bright spot, as they generally do, with good strength. The Wine Market…
I was recently offered four wines for review – all of which I had never sampled before. Because of this I jumped at the chance to try a new-to-me Malbec blend from Argentina, two non-vintage Champagnes from France and a Cream Sherry from Spain. I received the technical sheets and some information on each winery,…
Sometimes, when I remember to do it, I write up all my favorite wine and spirit discoveries from the past year for an end of year post. As I’ve been writing about wine in this blog since 2009, it’s very possible I’ve done this at least 10-15 times…but I’m guessing that I didn’t always remember…
It seems fitting to finish up this short series on Mendocino County and Coro Mendocino wines by going back to where it started at Jaxon Keys when winemaker Antoine Favero first showed us a bottle of Coro a couple of years ago. Since that trip was all about the brandy and we hadn’t reported on…
Very excited about our now-annual November visit to Napa wineries – our Thanksgiving Chef Ann (my husband’s sister) moved to No CA so we follow her there now for dinner and enjoy wine tasting on the same trip! I had already shared a teaser of who we were to visit in this blog, read it…