... associate with would be in jail right about now. Yet, last week I received the first threat of legal ... of us giving our genuine opinions will not face similar threats in the future. Welcome to anyone ... and desire to publish, nobody wants to open the paper and read about three bad wines - so in general ... good thing about the internet and wine reviews is that reviews will balance themselves out...

In the voluminous amount of words that are dedicated to the conversation on wine both in print and on-line there is a tendency to focus on what's new, what's hot, what's cultish, what's fashionable. This makes sense. What's New is...

Following on from the previous post about interesting search terms, I’ve been seeing some other strange/interesting ones appear lately.Some selected odd ones over the past month or so; anthony bourdain gay? - Thanks to Ed saying that this was the most interesting search term that he received in a comment on the previous post, now I’m getting them! CAM FRUIT. COM - Looking at the first...

There has been some news recently about two $2AUD ($1.50USD) cleanskin wines being offered by Dan Murphy’s, who are owned by a major supermarket chain here in Australia. I decided to see what a $2 wine tastes like and to put it into a blind test against another wine. My girlfriend poured ... if you don’t want to think about it. I am sure that this is the cleanskin and I’ve had worse wines...

Just a little note from the Pimp. Found a great place down on Ventura Blvd near Sherman Oaks called Boneyard Bistro. Didn't get a chance to eat there but Aaron, (chef/owner,) and Nicole were definitely Twisted. In fact, we are...

While your Pimp Daddy was out doing his thing, (pimping wine what else,) I came accross these lovely girls in Colorado Springs. Erin, on the right, is the owner of Vintages Wine and Spirits. That's her pal Andrea on the...

The following unsolicited remarks are from one single guestbook page taken from our Winery Tasting Room (reproduced there on the right.) Thought you might enjoy them! Beautiful setting! (from Chicago, Ill) Love the sense of humor! (Mona Nancy from Oakland)...

Long-time Twisted Few Lori and Eric Bausback took a little jaunt over to France recently for a friend's wedding, and they travelled with another friend, Pierre Poulet. Here's a nice portrait of them taken by their friend Benoit at Chateau...

I just finished reading in California Grapevine an address that Dan Berger gave the Wine Press Club of New South Wales. You can also find it online HERE. (ATTN: PDF) In it, he offers selected advice for the wineries and...

Forty years ago this spring, David Lett went against the best advice of his UC Davis professors and put Oregon’s first Pinot Noir plants into the hilly red earth outside Dundee, just southwest of Portland. Vintage 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of Oregon’s Pinot Noir industry. And yet the occasion passed with relatively little notice as winemakers went about harvesting their grapes...