Barry Goldfarb is a busy man, not unlike other winery owners. He lives in Bel Air and yet travels to his winery, Oreana, in both the Santa Barbara and Paso Robles locations, and Agua Dulce Winery every week. Who is Barry Goldfarb? Let’s ask… EB: Since you took ownership of Agua Dulce Vineyards, now known…
Due to all the interest from our readers, we decided to conduct a tasting with corn based vodkas. Who would have thought that finding this style of spirit in Europe would be such a difficult task. My living room table had been set and everything was ready to go, with the exception of a most…
I was in Denver for a couple of days, practically trapped in a hotel room as we were without a car, while my husband attended a convention. I tooled around the State Capitol, 16th Street Mall and Larimer Square. I tried lots of local restaurants and the locally made pale ales and barley wine. But…
There is only one thing to do in Eastern Europe when it is 12 degrees Fahrenheit and the snow is knee deep. If you guessed stay at home, you couldn’t be more wrong. The one thing that I love to do is to go to the circus. When I was a young lad and the…
Russ Briley, a winemaker that I’ve enjoyed getting to know better over monthly lunches and wine events, recently told me that his 2010 Nuggucciet Cellars Pinot Noir – of which he has only 7 cases left of as I pen this intro – recently garnered a 91-point rating from The Pinot Report. (My own tasting…
Aren’t we all relieved that the Mayans weren’t predicting the end of the world??? Although, no one would have been stuck with the post Christmas bills from all of our holiday shopping. For me, I would have been very disappointed, as it would have kept me from being involved in the 2013 San Francisco Chronicle…
If you send me wine I will taste it. If I don’t like it I won’t mention it as I know how much effort, talent and work goes into winemaking. Suffice it to say, I must have liked these because I did spend time evaluating the color, aromas and flavors: 2007 Vines on the…
Okay, if you’ve been following some of the results from my Scotch of the month club blind tastings, you know that I can usually guess which Scotch I’m drinking, but have been failing miserably in the descriptors. So, this time, I went to ForScotchLovers.com and equipped myself with some study notes that I will now,…