Now And Zin Wine

The Seaglass Wine Company is based in St. Helena, California, while making wines from vineyards south of Napa, in the state's Central Co...

Halter Ranch Vineyard is located in the beautiful hills of western Paso Robles. The Santa Lucia mountain range is the backdrop to the 2700-a...

It's the 30th anniversary vintage of Bonny Doon Vineyard's flagship wine, Le Cigare Volant .  Bonny Doon, the Santa Cruz-based win...

Morgan Winery is a Salinas outfit with vineyards in the Santa Lucia Highlands of Monterey County.  The winery's location makes me thi...

Bonny Doon 's winemaker and guiding light Randall Grahm talks a lot about the "life force" of a wine, and about how his win...

The Réserve version of Randall Grahm ’s flagship wine is aged en bonbonnes , which means it is aged not in oak but in glass carboys, or, l...

The little California town of Gilroy is the garlic capital of the world, so they say, and one sniff as you drive by on the freeway confirm...

"There is a place in our hearts for Grenache at Bonny Doon Vineyard ," states the winery's new website.  "It is the mis...

Randall Grahm 's Bonny Doon Vineyard has been providing holiday-worthy wines for more years than I have been drinking them - at least...

So, the wine pundits have concluded that Syrah has not fulfilled its promise as the Next Big Thing in California grapes.  Which variety wi...

Since the glow fell off the love affair between the wine biz and the Syrah, folks are looking around for the Next Big Thing.  They are pok...

In a recent article about California Grenache, Jon Bonné  called Grenache " the Jan Brady of grapes ."  He wrote that Grenache, ...

As California winemakers accept that Syrah was not the Next Big Thing, they are looking for another contender.  Why not Grenache? The Gr...

California winemakers who are looking for the Next Big Thing in California wine are asking, "Why not Grenache?" Grenache does ...