Sunday, May 31, 2009

Touring Sonoma County

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Geography To the west is the Pacific, to the east Napa County, north is Mendocino County, south is Marin County then San Francisco. Pla...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

The World is All A-twitter

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Social Media they call it. I'm now seeing jobs that include, or are mainly, doing real time Internet stuff aimed directly at customers....
Monday, May 18, 2009

How to taste wine in public

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Snobby wine tasting Are you planning to visit a tasting room? Over to a friends for some wine? Going to a wine event? First, y...
Monday, May 11, 2009

A new kind of tasting room

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Winery tasting room and their wine sales are big business in much of CA. No news there. An underground business in the Northern California...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

It's getting hot out!

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Time for a nice, cold Lagunitas IPA. If you like it hoppy this is the standard to judge the others by. OK, this is supposed to be a wine b...
Friday, May 8, 2009

It's BBQ season!

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It's getting warm and time to fire up the grill. This means Zinfandel ( ok , and it means beer). Most grilled foods will go with Z...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Alcohol levels

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From the label of a 1988 Dry Creek Vyds Zinfandel. Out to dinner last night at a popular restaurant in Healdsburg . A nice, local wine...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The upcoming season

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Not the grape season, but the tourist season. The biggest months are May, and July through October. Yeah, June is kind of a "sleeper...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A few April winery visits

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I spent a Saturday afternoon visiting a few local tasting rooms. I was mostly on a hunt for Pinot Noir . Dutton -Goldfield and Balletto ...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Barrel Tasting (and other special events)

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Sonoma County hosts three weekends of "Barrel Tasting" in March. Do you get to taste barrels? NO, luckily. But maybe wine that ha...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Trendiness

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I understand how trends happen and one decade you have Merlot as #1 and another Pinot. But there's a helluva lot of people looking to be...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Screwcaps on premium wine

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Yeah, screwcaps are a big topic amongst wine geeks. The Traditionalists vs. The Practical as it's usually played out. What has cork go...