Category Archives : Malvasia Bianca


10 Great Hot Weather Wines from Gold Country

It is finally Summer and the temperature is rising.  What wines do you drink when the temperature is up?  I know what I drink, and I thought I’d share with you my “go to” hot weather wines from California’s Sierra Foothills.   White Wines, Duh Well, it’s kind of a “no brainer” to suggest drinking […]

Sparkling Wines

Dinner is served

Wine and Food Pairing: mixed success

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 […]


Malvasia Bianca

Sera Fina Cellars, about whom I’ve written before, also makes this (spoiler alert!) lovely, sweet white.  It is made from the malvasia grape, yet another grape variety that I was unfamiliar with until recently.  The malvasia grape is grown in Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, and the Canary Islands among other locations.  There are both white and […]

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