
A Fresh New Look at Australian Wines From One of Its Oldest Brands: Hardys
Australia is one of the most underrated major wine regions in the US in part, I think, because of a simple …
Australia is one of the most underrated major wine regions in the US in part, I think, because of a simple …
Passion for Italian doesn’t describe the rapt attention of the trade audience at the Grandi Marchi tasting last month in SF. Instead, it describes the passion of Italy’s greatest producers for their own uniquely Italian grapes, and their efforts to improve, revive and communicate them to the world…
Don’t tell Managing Director Valerie Pajotin that Vin de France are mere “table wines”, even though technically, that’s what they are. For Valerie and a contingent of her colleagues from Anivin – the trade group for Vin de France – these wines have the potential to become a global force majeure
My reference wines for benchmark Cabernet Sauvignon are Napa Valley and Bordeaux, so when I had the chance recently to taste through a vertical of Don Melchor wines from Chile’s Concha y Toro with winemaker Enrique Tirado in San Francisco, they were going to have a pretty high bar to meet.
At a lovely Wine Country lunch this past week in Sonoma, I was transported to Chile with very unique dishes paired with …
At a recent sake tasting at the Hotel Monaco in San Francisco, Sake Samurai Timothy Sullivan told us we really shouldn’t call sake a wine “a sake is a sake”. Still, it’s hard for a Wine Muse not to taste sake like a wine and by doing so, I could really appreciate these sakes even more in terms of flavor, quality craftsmanship, long tradition and yes, terroir.
It poured yesterday in the Napa Valley but it didn’t stop hundreds of fans from crowding the annual Mount Veeder Appellation annual …
Marcassin, Kistler, Littorai, Peter Michael, Martinelli. These were among the first wines I tasted from the Sonoma Coast and they changed the …
I’ve written about Napa Valley’s earliest vineyards from St. Helena to Howell Mountain and Stags Leap, but no region’s vintners have had …
I was happy to see Christian Seeley, Managing Director of Quinta do Noval, at the 2011 Vintage Port tasting last month in …
I really looked forward to the 2011 Vintage Port tasting at the W Hotel in San Francisco last week presented by Quinta …
How does Port stay relevant in the largest, most competitive wine market in the world? Don’t change a thing. We’re spoiled here …
Empires come and go, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire has re-emerged in the U.S.. Austrian wines have always been a somm favorite here …
A couple years ago at the Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival technical conference, winemaker Greg La Follette spoke about Pinot Noir lovers. …
I looked forward to trying the 2011 vintage white Burgundies at a recent Frederick Wildman tasting in San Francisco. The vintage ended …