Considering that many of you may be new to our blog, or both our blog and winery, we feel it only polite to catch you up on the last few months. September was an amazing month because we had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Guiness Book of World ...

I have an immense weakness for good blends. My favorite high-end wines come from Chateauneuf du Pape in the southern Rhone River Valley where the French government allows as many as 13 varietals to be included in the wines. I feel that artfully blending a wine in such a way that all...

The Depot Hotel in Cucina Rustica in Sonoma is the Recipient! (photo:) Wine Patrol Commander Jim McCullough presenting the WinePAL certificate to Gia and Mike Ghilarducci chef/owners of Depot Hotel Cucina Rustica in Sonoma, California. The Wine Patrol, in its ongoing quest to find ... the award and thanked the Wine Patrol for acknowledging their efforts. "We work so hard at finding...

Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...

A fantastic buy at $13 a bottle, Toad Hollow's Erik's the Red is a massive, full bodied, and downright festive red wine. It is made up of 15 different grapes and may well be the perfect table wine for any occassion. It is fruity - with ripe...

The title of ‘Wine Tasting’ was a bit misleading. What Casa Ludovico held was a cuisine and wine experience. Most wine tastings are pretty similar. I expected an array of five or six wines, a few plates of bread and crackers, a bunch of people standing around talking quietly among themselves while...

Tomorrow (6/14/2005) a local Italian restaurant is having a wine tasting. I will be there to see what they have to offer. I believe there will be some more affordable wines involved although I know a few of the offerings will be rather expensive but I am hoping to find some values...

... on the wide topics of wine here given that it’s one of the central themes here, so I’ve added subcategory tags to the Wine category for Appellations & Vintages , Ohio Wine , Wine Blogs and Wine Science . I was thinking about adding a few more subcategory tags, such as Wine Law & Policy or Wine Events. My ... . Those two that I mention perhaps? A wine reviews tag separate from the general reviews category...

"Judging Australian wine shows is the closest I've ever come to hand-to-hand combat." So says wine writer Tim Atkin the Uk's The Observer: "No one actually exchanges punches, but the verbal fisticuffs can be brutal. If you're brought up to be polite and to consider someone else's point of view, the bare-knuckle opinions can come as a shock. 'I thought that wine was fucked, mate,' a fellow...