So much about what we read in wine blogs seem to center on ones finding a particular wine and then telling the world about it. Often it is w...

Sometimes things seem more seductive than they really are. Two out of the last three weekends I have been in Northern California for confere...

Dallas, Texas So a recent Monday didn’t start out so well. Around 5:00 AM it sounded like someone was banging on my back door. I was already...

Pit Stop - Deadlines, work, preparation for many things. Will return later this week.

Have we heard enough? Is Brunello dead? Have the Italians taken one of their greatest wine symbols and thrown it to the devil? From the look...

There’s something about the influence Italy has had on California. In fact the influence continues. It goes both ways. The New World has loo...

Call me nostalgic, but every so often I get a hankering to go down some of the old wine trails of my early days. California, that is. And on...

I was looking inside my fridge at all the bottles of opened wine inside. They have been there for a couple of weeks now. I had a tasting for...

The recent awarding of a DOCG ( or was it 2 DOCG’s ?) for Prosecco started it all off. I got thinking that there are several wines that have...