Ancient wine cellars discovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta!

Ancient wine cellars discovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta Archaeologists have found wine cellars dating back [...]

Understanding the Role of Sugar in Wine

Understanding the Role of Sugar in Wine Written by Kelli White SevenFiftyDaily Science says, dab [...]

Petaluma Gap Wines ~ Wildly Flavorful

Petaluma Gap Wines ~ Wildly Flavorful By the famed viticulture expert Dr. Mark Greenspan in [...]

The French say that the ‘crazy’ English invented the fizzy wine…

The French say that the ‘crazy’ English invented the fizzy wine… By David Chazan, The [...]

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CABERNET

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CABERNET By Mark Angelillo, Snooth.com Cabernet Sauvignon is a shape-shifter. This [...]

Objectivity and Loving Attention: The secret to wine tasting…

Objectivity and Loving Attention By Dwight furrow in Edible Arts The key to objectivity, for [...]

Five wine rules I’m breaking

Five wine rules I’m breaking Written by  Lee Suckling New Zeland Winegrower Many older vintages have [...]

Zinfandel – The fascinating history of ‘California’s grape’

Zinfandel – The fascinating history of ‘California’s grape’ By Allison Levine Napa Valley Register Croatian [...]

Red Wine Components May Help Prevent Breast Cancer Growth!

Red Wine Components May Epigenetically Help Prevent Breast Cancer Growth Study finds proanchocyanidins and reservatrol, [...]

San Francisco’s Restaurants Still Outclass New York!

The Bay Area dominates the Michelin three-star category. Let the cross-continent sniping begin! By  Kate [...]

Objective vs. Subjective in Wine Tasting

Objective vs. Subjective in Tasting By my long time friend and Master Sommelier Tim Gaiser It’s [...]

2018’s Top 25 Wines!

   It has been an amazing year of tasting, smelling & swishing wines. We tasted [...]

A Holiday Book Suggestion

Kevin Zraly ~ Windows on the World Complete Wine Course’s Latest Edition My old friend Kevin [...]

Robert Parker: The Man Becomes the Brand

Robert Parker: The Man Becomes the Brand By W. Blake Gray  Wine-Searcher.com Robert Parker used [...]

Musings On Grenache

Musings on Grenache Contributed by David Morrison The Wine Gourd I have always thought that [...]

All Oaks Are Not Alike

Why Not All Oaks Are Alike For Wine By Tom Mullen, Forbes The possibilities appear endless.Consider, [...]

Three closure tales

Three closure tales BY Bob Campbell MW in Three of a Kind An aspect of wine [...]

Terroir: Real or imagined?

Terroir: Real or imagined? By Allen Balik Napa Valley Register In a recent column, “Chardonnay—the [...]

Assessing a wine’s character

Assessing a wine’s character By: Allen R. Balik Napa Valley Register Recently, I was joined [...]

Sept 2018 Harvest Report

Harvest Report 2018 By Jesse Duarte Napa Valley Register Cool temperatures produce optimal conditions for [...]