Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Napa/Sonoma Top Wine News for 2022 (and happy anniversary)!

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Happy Anniversary to me. The first post on this wine blog was on December 27, 2008, and titled "Oh no, another wine blog!" Yeah, I...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

A Few Inexpensive Sonoma County Wines

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Y ou'll rarely find ten dollar stuff coming from expensive Sonoma County grapes. Those California wines come from the San Joaquin Valley...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Few People Age Their Wine

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  About 90% of wine purchased retail is consumed within a couple of weeks. Usually it's consumed that same day.   The current wine cultu...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Things Learned About Drinking Wine

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This is part two of two. The previous post was part one on things you learn about buying wine. This one is about enjoying the wine.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Things Learned About Buying Wine

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This is part one of two parts on "things you learn about wine" as you get more experienced with the beverage. Part one here is con...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Why Don't More People Drink Wine?

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According to a survey from Wine Intelligence , a wine consumer research company, about one in three adult Americans are regular drinkers of ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Wine Manipulation

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  Lots of folks like to laugh at Natural Wines and similar programs. Sometimes the laughter might be justified. Sometimes, maybe not.   At ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

"Why Aren't More Millennials Buying Wine?"

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Here are some basic truths about premium wine sales coming from the point-of-view of a Boomer. There are some issues with wine marketing and...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

A Little Rockpile History

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The Rockpile wine grape growing area in northern Sonoma County is one of the smallest AVAs in the country in total acres of grapes planted....
Friday, November 25, 2022

Regions of California for Value in Wine

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Everyone is aware of Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Napa wine prices. Lots of other regions qualify as expensive, like right here in Sonoma County....
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Fancy Boxed Wine

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  Tablas Creek Vineyard of Paso Robles has a reputation of being a bit of an innovator in the wine biz. In the 1990s they introduced Califo...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

History of Zinfandel

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  Zinfandel is related to grapes growing along the Adriatic Sea hundreds of years ago. More recently, it's been found to be genetically ...