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 ...

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...

I received the 2005 Hook & Ladder “The Tillerman” white table wine as a part of a wine blog sampling program. According to the email from the p.r. representation for Hook & Ladder, the DeLoach’s wanted to explore the wine blogging community. It would have been far more intuitive to ...

Napa Cabs have a somewhat deserved reputation for being expensive. It’s hard to find a smaller lot producer that isn’t more interested in crafting $60 bottles then $20 bottles. So, it was almost on a fluke that I picked up a bottle of the 2004 Twenty Rows Cabernet Sauvignon while ...

Ahem, what’s the saying? … Martha Stewart in the kitchen and Jenna Jameson in the bedroom … or something like that … there’s a lot to be said for the dichotomy of nurture and nature. The Italian varietal aglianico is something like that. It grabs you firmly, doesn’t let go, ...

I got a call the other night from a friend of mine who went with me on my Central Coast wine jaunt this past summer. He had pulled the cork on a Cabernet from a small family winery called Dark Star Cellars that we had happened into and it was ...