The other night we grilled some salmon. I opened up a bottle of Narrow Gate’s 2011 Dunamis El Dorado Roussanne. It was a terrific pairing! The 2011 Roussanne is a dry white wine. It has a nice mineral quality, with light fruit and exquisite acid. The acid made this wine perfect with the fatty fish. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It was pretty hot here in the Bay Area earlier this week. While it has cooled off now, the start of the week was definitely White Wine Weather (the other “www”). I opened up a bottle of a 2009 Verdelho from Nine Galbles Vineyard. It is such a nice wine. The color is the palest […]
