Having tasted thousands of wines in dozens of wine regions across the globe, I have heard some really strange (my husband says “dumb”) questions. For example, upon hearing a wine server refer to the blackberry and blueberry flavor notes: “When do they add the berries to the wine?” The same question has been asked about the wide range … Continue reading There’s no Vitamin C in Orange Wine
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A winery close enough to walk from home
They say life comes full circle and I am starting to believe that. When we first started coming to the Russian River area of Sonoma County 15 years ago, one of the very first wineries we visited was the appropriately named Russian River Vineyards. I would be lying if I said it was the wine … Continue reading A winery close enough to walk from home
Ten Best Wine Travel Bags
We recently traveled to Portugal and Spain to look for new wines and wineries to import to the United States and offer in our web wine store. We criss-crossed Iberia for 17 days, visiting a number of different wineries and sampling their offerings. As always, we found some great wines and some, well, not-so-great wines. … Continue reading Ten Best Wine Travel Bags
10 Personal Lessons from Wine Country fires
Two weeks after the first wildfire started its deadly tear through Northern California wine country, we are taking stock of things and wondering "what did we do wrong?" and "what could we have done better?" Today's post will be more in the nature of a confessional because, in retrospect, we should have been so much … Continue reading 10 Personal Lessons from Wine Country fires