Friday, December 29, 2017

Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, late December (photos)

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Photos taken December 28, 2017, the closing days of the year in Sonoma County's Dry Creek Valley.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

What People Look for When Going Wine Tasting

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Wine County visitation is big business, really big business, as in billions of dollars spent in wineries, hotels, restaurants, etc. in Sonom...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Hard Cider

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What bridges the gap between wine and beer? What beverage is seeing double-digit growth? Though cider is small-time compared to beer a...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Anti-aging & red wine

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The bottom line is diet and exercise or drink red wine. Choose wisely. Red wine component and anti-aging
Monday, December 18, 2017

Sonoma Sparklers for the Holidays

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First, let me say it's a crying shame most people only drink sparkling wines over the winter holidays. What's a better wine to put y...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Petaluma Gap AVA

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The federal government organization known as the TTB , part of the Treasury Dept., regulates wine. One thing they decide on is the appellati...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Exercise Your Brain -- Have a Glass of Wine

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Okay, it's another study on a benefit of wine consumption. There are so many of these you might wonder which ones are legit. This one co...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Update: A Couple Months After the Fires

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It's been about two months since the destructive Wine County fires. Currently the damages are estimated at a staggering $9 billion. Des...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Best of Sonoma County

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The local paper, the Press Democrat, does a yearly poll of readers to select everything from the best winery tasting room to the best dog pa...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Wine in Cans: Is it Coming? (finally)

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Alternative wine packaging has been talked about for several years. From boxes like Tetra-Paks to cans there's been a largely unsuccess...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Top 100 Wines of Sonoma

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This is a list from a writer at sonomamag.com using results from one local wine judging plus her own tastings. I've only sampled a smal...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Where Chardonnay's Characteristics Come From

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You've got the natural flavors of the grapes along with where they're grown, you throw in some oak maybe and you've got the char...