WineDiverGirl made a blog post about wine bloggers and wineries working together. Famous, or infamous, Wine Enthusiast writer Steve Heimoff cut up her thoughts on his blog. I posted this response on Heimoff’s blog and would like to share it … Continue reading
Santa Rosa in the middle of the Sonoma County wine reginos is at 59% of normal as of November 20, 2008. San Jose, not far from Gilroy, Santa Cruz Mountains, and Livermore wine regions is at 37% of normal!! Further … Continue reading
I taste a lot of wine all over California but rarely blog about wine. All the wine is very good with only subtle differences. However, sometimes I bump into a winery that crafts their wines differently. I’m not giving a … Continue reading
Katya and I enjoy winery picnics with gourmet food, beautiful table settings, and of course the winery’s wine. I’m thinking, should we publish our next picnic on Wine Questers, Twitter, etc. and see if a few folks want to join … Continue reading
Compared to the fun times we have at other regions’ passport events this Santa Cruz Mountains event sucked. We’ve experienced better there. We visited Ridge, Pichetti, Naumann, Savannah-Chanelle, Loma Prieta and Silver Mountain. Two that were on the passport weren’t … Continue reading
I hang out on Twitter with a bunch of wine biz and wine blogger folks. Late Friday PM I noticed a little post offering two free tickets for the Silver Pass. What’s that? I googled it and found that the … Continue reading
There was a time when you didn’t need to concentrate the aromas of wine to get a good nose full. Wine aroma was robust. However, modern wines have a much softer nose. To the rescue comes Vino Chapeau and their … Continue reading
At the start of the Wine Bloggers Conference in Santa Rosa a couple of weeks ago we were treated to a picnic and tasting on a hill in the vineyard. It was a special time and wonderful to taste wines … Continue reading
I mentioned to the Cameron Hughes guys at the Wine Bloggers Conference that my wife’s birthday was that day (Saturday) and I didn’t have a present. So they gave me two bottles of their 2006 Cab Sauv. One from Chalk … Continue reading
Last weekend, October 24th – 26th, we had the first North American Wine Bloggers Conference. It was held at the classic Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa north of San Francisco. It is a fine hotel and the location in the … Continue reading