On my recent Gold Country wine tasting trip, I travelled with a group of friends. Some of them were using my book, Pour Me Another, to keep track of their tasting and to get an overview of each of the wineries that we visited. I encourage wine drinkers to keep track of the wines they […]
Skinner Vineyards is one of three wineries that I had included in my book prior to my having tasted their wines. The Skinner family has been making wines in the Gold Country since the middle 1800’s. Their new winery location had not yet opened at the time Pour Me Another went to press. On my […]
Last weekend, I ventured eastward to Gold Country with a group of friends. The travelling band of wine tasters varied in size from 7 on Friday to 14 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday. It was a wonderful opportunity to share my passion for Gold Country and Gold Country wines with friends, some of whom […]
On a recent trip up to Gold Country I was shocked to see that one of my favorite small wineries was no more. Bantam Cellars, a fun, small, family winery, associated with Karly Wines, was a welcome respite from the increasingly overly corporate and packaged wineries in Amador County. These were real people making real […]
It is that time of the year again. We’re all turning our minds towards preparing for the Thanksgiving dinner. Those of us who know a little bit about wine start getting asked “what wine goes with turkey?” Well, quite a few wines go with turkey. But the problem with a Thanksgiving Feast isn’t pairing wine […]
