Monday, March 30, 2020

Smelling Your Wine, an Intro

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There's lots of info on wine aromas on the Internet and it can get kind of complicated. Let's keep it simple with an overview to hel...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

If You Want to Drink Alone, Now is the Time

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Drinking alone is a social no-no as it's supposed to indicate a drinking problem. Though it gets labeled as a problem you may or may not...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Sustainable Vineyards and Roundup

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A few years ago Sonoma County made a big deal about the county's vineyards going 100% sustainable -- the first region in the country to ...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Looking for that cheap wine you've been hearing about?

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Oversupply You probably have read about the price of wine going down because there's an oversupply in the market right now. Yeah, that...
Monday, March 16, 2020

North Coast 2019 Harvest

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The North Coast includes Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Lake counties. The link below shows the crop size and grape prices for the last few yea...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Wine Grapes: Climate Change's Canary in the Coal Mine

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Premium wine gapes are very sensitive to changes in weather. That's why you hear about good vintages and bad vintages. In California m...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Smith-Madrone Winery

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Stu Smith Forbes recently gave a shout-out to Smith-Madrone Winery (who, you ask?) owned and operated by brothers Stu and Charlie Smith....
Friday, March 6, 2020

Direct Wine Shipping for 2019

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Direct shipping is wine shipped from the producer to your home. Luckily, most states allow this now. A report on 2019 direct-to-consumer win...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Weird Facts With Your Sense of Smell

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Your senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste are life, you could say. Smell is the most interesting of the senses and maybe the mo...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Is My Wine Corked?

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When you get a bottle of wine home and pop it for guests, dinner or a special occasion the last thing you want is to have the wine be bad. W...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Napa Wineries Using Sonoma County Grapes

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Our neighbors to the east in Napa using Sonoma County grapes is nothing new. The 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay of Judgement of Paris fam...
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Friday, February 21, 2020

Frank Pastori, 1920-2020

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This is a story of old-school Sonoma County and the Italian families that made the county what it is today, but without the $100 wines, $50 ...