Friday, March 30, 2018

Answering Your Wine Questions :)

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Because wine is serious !
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Difference Between a Cheap and an Expensive Bottle of Wine

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So there's this perfectly good bottle of wine you get from the local market for ten bucks. Then there are these hundred or two hundred d...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Visiting Healdsburg? Get out of Downtown!

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The little town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County can be quite full of visitors on any weekend and during the summer vacation season. It's ...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Weekend Wine Memes

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Cuz it's almost the weekend. Cheers!
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

What Wine with Your Burger

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It's now officially spring so lets think about grilling up some hamburgers. Burgers, the all-American food, with a thousand ways to prep...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Eww, Gallo

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I mean, yuck. Gallo owns many wine labels from Louis Martini to Barefoot. Their experimental brand is Apothic that does things like age a re...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Vineyard Damage from Wildfires

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A survey of vineyard owners in the five county area affected by the October wildfires (Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Solano) shows that ma...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Saving Napa Valley

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The valley floor is covered in grapevines. There are over 400 wineries in Napa Valley with more on the way. Where to go next? The hillsides ...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Yeast and Civilization

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The great change in the history of mankind was going from nomadic to settling in villages. Why did that happen? Climate change? Domesticatin...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Women Winemakers of Sonoma

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Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. It seems the struggle women often have in "a man's world" is in the news m...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Per Capita Spending on Wine

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The U.S. buys a lot of wine. But per capita? Not so much. The latest figures in money spent annually per capita, in U.S. dollars: Austral...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Sonoma County Lodging

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With the influx of visitors the area has lots of hotel rooms plus camping, VRBO-type lodging, hostels, etc. In case you may have heard the O...