We were now ready to taste some Zinfandels from the Bedrock Vineyard itself. The side-by-side tasting including the 2023 Bedrock Wine Co. Bedrock Zinfandel and the 2021 Once & Future Wine Company Bedrock Zinfandel. Once & Future Wine was started by Joel Peterson in 2014. Of course, as the Godfather of Zinfandel, he’d been making…
“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….
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…
Sideways Uncorked The Perfect Pairing of Film & Wine By Kirk Honeycutt & Mira Advani Honeycutt Praise for Sideways Uncorked: “The Honeycutts’ account of Sideways and its reverberations is so thorough that even I learned things I hadn’t known. A delightful, accurate chronicle with great wine tips.” — Alexander Payne, director and Oscar-winning co-writer of Sideways “A while…
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…
ROME, /PRNewswire/ — Gambero Rosso, one of Italy’s most prestigious wine guides, recognized for its authoritative reviews and ratings of Italian wines, has named Trentino-based wine estate San Leonardo as 2025 “Winery of the Year.” The award is one of Italy’s highest wine honors and comes on the heels of the 300th anniversary of the storied Italian estate, which has been…
The gourmet jams by Chef Lori Rogers are available at Walmart.com and will debut in Walmart stores in June 2025. DALLAS, /PRNewswire/ — Thousands of small businesses applied to participate in the annual Walmart Open Call, yet only 92 brands received the Golden Ticket and Jam Vino was one of them. Chef Lorious (Lori Rogers), the culinary creative behind the gourmet wine-infused jam…
As covered in our previous article, we initially connected with Hoss Milone, winemaker for Brutocao Family Vineyards, for the purpose of learning more about the Coro Mendocino organization. But we learned very quickly that, wonderful as Coro Mendocino is, Brutocao has a lot more to offer than just that. The Brutocao family emigrated from Italy…
Love, love, love Rodney Strong Wines. From the six I tasted in 2019 to the 2018 single bottle reserve Cabernet Sauvignon I tasted a year ago which also made my Best of 2023 list. From the New York International Wine Competition two years ago: Rodney Strong Wine Estates (Healdsburg, CA) Double Gold medal: Russian River Valley;…