What has been a fairly well kept secret, that the California Gold Country is a great place to vacation, is finally getting out. The folks over at Lonely Planet, publishers of travel guides, have named the California Gold Country one of the top US10 travel destinations for 2012. Sandwiched between Boulder, Colorado at #7 and […]
Here is the second in my intermittent series of opinionated interviews with local wine makers. Today’s interview is with Glenn Hugo, the owner and wine maker at Hugo Family Cellars. We conducted this interview late last year. I met Glenn at a hotel in Napa where he was pouring tastings of one of his wines, […]
I was acquainted with Urban Legend Cellars primarily through their Twitter feed. The relaxed and friendly voice behind their tweets encouraged me, and all their other followers, to stop in to their new tasting room located in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland. On a recent weekend afternoon, I did just that. There isn’t […]
The other evening, my partner and I joined some friends at a dinner party in the City. (For those of you who don’t live in the San Francisco Bay Area, “The City” always refers to San Francisco in local parlance.) Our hosts requested that we bring the wine. Now that I’ve written a book about […]
As I mentioned in my earlier post looking forward to 2012, This year I will be posting the occasional interview with wine makers and wine writers. Today is the first of this planned, intermittent series of interviews. These interviews are for my next book, Wine 101, which will be an introduction to wine and wine […]
As promised yesterday, the Kindle edition of Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines, the definitive guide to Gold Country wines, is now ready for purchase! The Kindle edition is basically the same as the paper back version, containing the same information about 68 different wineries in Amador and El Dorado County. […]
At long last, and by popular demand, Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines, will be available in the Kindle format tomorrow, 10 January 2012! The Kindle edition contains all the same information about 68 different wineries in Amador and El Dorado County, along with recommendations about where to stay and where […]
Bring Out The Barrel will be happening the weekend of January 28 and 29. Twenty-seven of El Dorado Counties finest wineries will be participating. It is an opportunity to meet with the wine makers and taste the newest vintages before they’re bottled. And maybe buy some futures while you’re there. The tickets, good for barrel […]
The tick of the calendar from one year into the next is always a time for looking back and looking forward with a bit more self awareness and anticipation than we usually experience. I’ve already looked back. Now is the time to look forward. You can expect posts: related to my book relaying my tasting […]
Let me start off the New Year with a “Drink Now Alert!” Last night our neighbors served us a 2007 Zinfandel from Mount Aukum in El Dorado County. It was terrific: the kind of wine that makes you say “wow” as your eyes roll back in your head. If you love lush, silky, full bodied […]
