I believe that wine tasting is really a very simple activity that can be as nuanced or as straight forward as you are comfortable with.
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Read more »If you have a French wine lover on your list, or if you haven’t hopped on the “drink local” bandwagon, this is the ideal gift: a wine map of french wines in the graphic style of the London Tube map. It’s genius! The product of another San Francisco Bay Area based architect turned wine writer, […]
Now that Amazon.com has renewed it’s previously halted Associates Store program in California, I have reactivated my Amazon Associate Store. You can find Great books about wine by authors like Natalie MacLean and David Darlington Cool stuff for yourself and wine lovers in you life including the items from my list of Gifts For The […]
‘Tis the season for gift idea summaries! Oh Joy! At least I waited until after Thanksgiving. So here is my list of the best gifts for the beloved wine-o in your life. Since most wine drinkers have strong preferences about what wines they want to drink or try, and you may not be able to […]
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 […]
So this is going to be a stretch for most people, but I’m going to take a stab at it anyway. This morning I received an invitation to participate in a “virtual tasting” of a French wine. For those of you who aren’t familiar, a “virtual tasting” is a marketing event where the wine producer […]
I was shocked to see that my last post was almost 6 weeks ago. My does time pass when you’re having fun or freaking out with anxiety. Two of those 6 weeks, I was out of town feeling all soggy in the wilds of New Hampshire. We only got 3 sunny days out of 14. […]
