Dear Fellow, uh, Winos: Have you always dreamed of doing your best Robert Parker impression?  Jeff at Twisted Oak Winery has offered to provide samples for you to review.  Exercise your palates and evaluate a TO wine . Technorati Tags: california wine , wine review...

... of these kids a great deal, and that is one of the highest compliments I can offer up. In the wine business, you either take everything very seriously and make great wine, or you approach wine with a sense of humor and often times wind up with not-so-great wine. One of the few great winemakers who has managed to straddle both ideals and make serious wine without losing his child-like desire to giggle...

Filed under: Wine , West Coast , Farming , Business , America It seems that last years bumper crop of California wine grapes, combined with large harvests this year, have producers paying ... on their vines. No one knows exactly how this is going to affect wine production and sales domestically ... . So far this seems to be just with lesser varieties of grapes that aren't used by many wine producers...

It has been immensely frustrating amid the latest Israeli offensive into Lebanon and endless Hezbollah rocket strikes to hear little slivers of detail about the extensive damage in the Bekaa Valley and targeting of the Golan Heights as well — both well known for their geopolitical hot-spot nature, less well ...

Subscribe to our Wine Podcast at iTunes or Yahoo! Hallcrest Vineyards ... that the Santa Cruz Mountains were the ideal soils and climate for producing premium California varietal wines, Hallcrest Vineyards has a long running history of producing fine wine from the Santa Cruz ... , the tasting room also serves their Organic Wine Works wines (http://members.cruzio.com/~owwwine...

GNGNB Episode 24: Wine Blogging Wednesday #19 (When in Rhone) OK Guys & Girls, it's a new ... , as it happens to be a re-run anyway. Rather it is time once again for Wine blogging Wednesday ... a local wine shop here in Willow Glen (a Suburb of San Jose, CA) called the GrapeVine and asked them ... here in the blog, but I did sample a French blend as well as a California 100% Syrah. Listen...

... particpating in our very first Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW#15 - Graciously hosted by none other than Fatemeh of Gastronomie ) Now Derrick at An Obsession with Food is hosting Wine Blogging Wednesday #16 ... for gifts for loved ones, us Wine Bloggers and Podcasters from all over the Globe are window shopping for the best LABEL on a bottle of wine we can find. What perfect timing! We just wrapped up...

We hope that everyone had a wonderful (and safe) start the the New Year. Today's wine podcast is for the January 2006 installment of (insert booming echo here) Wine Blogging Wednesday (/echo ... to the North - The Cork Dork . As we still consider ourselves newbies to this Wine Blogging thing, we actually ... their wine aisle sorted, there they were, the Kiwis, the challenge d'jour. I chose a 2002 MARLBOROUGH...

A Reminder for my SLC wine peeps:   Undiscovered California A Basic Juice Wine Class 8 September, 7:30pm @ Radiance Medspa (926 E. 900 S.) We’ve all tasted great  wine from California -  Cabernet, Chardonnay and Zinfandel.  But, have you  ever tried Californian Barbera, Tempranillo, Marsanne or Rousanne?  Learn about  these unique, undiscovered  wine-gems from the golden state...

I've always wondered what kind of people the tasting coordinators at Wine Spectator are.  I mean, these guys must get to taste absolutely everything.  It turns out that these coordinators are people ... for two years and then back to California to work with Turley.  Wells is producing some killer pinots ... that makes an excellent food wine.  The electric blood color is eye catching for starters.  Tart...