CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. — The 2025 growing season in Monterey County can best be described as a Goldilocks vintage, not too hot, not too cold, but perfectly balanced. With only a handful of brief warm spells, this year recalls cooler, classically elegant vintages such as 1998, 1999, 2010, and 2011, years celebrated for their finesse and…
Have you had a wine tasting with a winery’s president and winemaker…and the birds of prey that guard their vineyard? We did when Bouchaine Vineyards in Napa Carneros offered a “falconry in the garden” experience – here in Las Vegas! (You can visit Bouchaine for your falcon experience, details are at the end of this…
Boutique Paso Robles winery expands tasting room and culinary pairings (Paso Robles, CA) – Anita and Varinder Sahi, proprietors and winemaker of Copia Vineyards and Winery, invite guests to embark on an exquisite sensory journey with Copia’s signature wine flight with optional seasonal curated small bite pairings in their new location in the Adelaida Vineyard District…
Paso Robles, California – ONX Wines has scored big with Wine Enthusiast and earned a much- coveted top 100 spot! Their 2019 Noble Intrigue was added to this year’s Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2022. Each year Wine Enthusiast Magazine chooses the most age-worthy and collectable wines to grace their top 100 list. “ The 2019 Noble Intrigue is a…
Nestled within the newly budded vines picnic basket in hand, guests can now get up close and personal with this recently Certified Sustainable Paso Robles vineyard. ONX Wines new Vineyard Picnic, Vineyard Afternoon Tea, and Vineyard Proposal experiences let their guests immerse themselves in the famed Central Coast viticulture. When ONX Wines planted their vines,…
Eddie and I tasted the 2011 “Don” Cabernet Sauvignon Tribute Wine with Mitch Cosentino, founder and winemaker at Pure Cru Napa Valley, in 2015. We liked it so much then we bought a few bottles, found them in our cellar recently and decided that we needed to crack one open. Below are notes from the…
I became a fan of Carmenere wines when first introduced to them, most likely via Alex Guarachi of Guarachi Wine Partners when his distribution company was formerly known as TGIC – Thank God it’s Chilean – a decade or more ago. The grape is one of the noble Bordeaux grape varieties and made especially well…
After a decade of working with Center of Effort Wine, time seems to have passed quickly. “As I think back, we have accomplished so much in that time. Our wines have found a rhythm, we understand the estate and the land, and we have begun to make adjustments based on deep knowledge of this place,”…
Tickled to have an opportunity to taste wines with a winemaker – via Zoom – after such a long dry Covid-induced period! And it would be a favorite winery of many pals – Gary Farrell Vineyards and Winery – whose website says they’re “A Grand Cru of the Russian River Valley for more than three…
BORDEAUX, FRANCE (PRWEB) – Despite the cumulation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancelation of the En Primeurs Week, Château Malescasse is continuing to focus on producing wine that earned the estate a “Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel” classification, propelling the domaine at the forefront of the Médoc’s most highly regarded properties. The Crus Bourgeois du Médoc appellation…