Have you heard of Harvest Moon Winery? If not, don’t feel bad. To be honest, we hadn’t either. After all, there are A LOT of wineries in California and the smaller ones don’t get nearly enough attention. But when our friend Sue Straight [aka The Wine Wench] announced that she was bringing her talents to…
Today I had the opportunity to taste two dry wines from Portugal’s Quinta da Fonte Souto and Symington Family Estates. Below are notes from the winery on each wine followed by my wine tasting notes in italics. 2021 Quinta da Fonte Souto White embodies all the strengths of the property’s unique terroir: the freshness and balance…
During this long summertime period the weight of the heat can be lifted…when I get a new-to-me wine for review. This time it’s a 2019 Quinta da Fonte Souto Branco, DOC Alentejo, Portalegre. Before I opened the bottle to make my tasting notes I learned (see “more information” below) that the word fonte means water…
One rare not-so-sunny day I traveled to the Mondrian Los Angeles in West Hollywood for a wine class and tasting on the Alentejo region of Portugal. My education on Portugal had been, up to this point, mostly spent on the obvious: Ports. However, as a wine writer, it’s always special to not only taste new…
The #LAWineWriters struck again en masse for a recent tasting and lesson, this time on the Lodi winemaking region: Camron King and Craig Ledbetter were on hand to tell us all about the wineries and vineyards in LoCa, aka the wines of Lodi. Camron is the director of the Lodi Winegrape Commission, and Craig is…
This is the last article in my series on the Napa Valley for 2017. Today we will have a virtual taste from Phifer Pavitt, Tank Garage Winery, Larkmead and Joseph Phelps. Phifer Pavitt We met with Luke Speer, the Director of Hospitality, for our tasting. Phifer Pavitt is known (written up in Wine Spectator 13…
I think I am finally beginning to understand the Scholium Project wines. A little. Maybe. It’s taken me a few years. Perhaps it has to do with how I think and feel about wine. You may have noticed that even though I have been contributing to Eve’s Wine 101 for several years now, I rarely…
Paso Robles, CA— Vina Robles Vineyards & Winery has expanded its regular tasting offerings to include a new Wine and Food Pairing Experience as well as a selection of tapas plates that pair with the winery’s estate wines. The Vina Robles Wine and Food Pairing Experience showcases a flight of five limited-production wines each paired…
This is the third vintage from winemaker Kevin Willenborg at Vina Robles in Paso Robles, and, as I was a fan of the last two, I couldn’t wait to taste them. We work our way up dear reader, whites to reds in a tasting of four wines that I don’t think you should pass up….