My mother is what they call a tea-totaler. For religious reasons, she doesn't drink any alcohol, but she never has actually liked wine or any sort of alcohol, so it's not like the gave up a whole lot to begin... Continue .

Back to blogging now after being away for a while on business.  We had the pleasure of going down to Carmel Valley this past weekend for some good food and wine -- on the food front, we are big fans of both Casanova restaurant (in Carmel-by-the-sea) and their more casual ...

Making wine away from the vineyards.

Green acres is the place to be; Farm living is the life for me?  Well, it’s true that rural settings are usually where you’ll find vineyards and wineries.  But, maybe it doesn’t have to be that way.  If you live in the city or the suburbs — how about making wine right there in your own ... Verhage (Eno), and Andrew Vingiello (AP Vin), four urban winemakers from the Bay Area, to discuss how...

From Jared Brandt over at the A Donkey and Goat winery blog comes a pointer to several Conde-Nast articles on urban wineries: Wine and the City , in which Jared's wife Tracey drives a forklift (why do magazines find this so remarkable?), Urban Wineries Across America , from New York to Los Angeles, and Wineries Around the Bay , focusing on the San Francisco urban-winery phenomenon...

I just got back from a week long stay in California. This was mostly a family oriented vacation which gave me the chance to “play” the role of a real tourist this time in contrast to my first visit... This is only a snapshot of a new entry I just ...

You've probably noticed that "50 States. 50 Wineries. 50 Weeks." has become merely 50 wineries from 50 states. That's just because it's been so much harder to gather samples than I anticipated. So, instead of doing one a week, I'll taste them as I can get them. The goal is still to taste, and write about, wine from each of America's 50 states. This time around, we head to the deep south...

quote [The wine doesn’t come in crystal bottles, but it does have the same proud name: Waterford. It’s a fairly new South African winery, dating from 1998, located in the Stellenbosch region near the Cape of Good Hope.] - from: www.chron.com Read the full story

I hadn’t heard of Jim Neal’s Chariot wines when I discovered they were available locally and reasonably priced. I did a web search and found these blog entries: Winecast: Jim Neal, Chariot, “Diana” 2002 Vinography: Jim Neal Wine Those posts convinced me to buy a few bottles of the 2004 ...

) about them. I thought the Paso wineries were okay: okay, but nothing exceptional—maybe even ... wineries and their respective Tempranillo’s and I didn’t get an opportunity to taste their Tempranillo...