Now And Zin Wine

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...

The Now And Zin Wine Country series started in 2011, with Virginia wine. In the dozen years since then I have sampled wines from 46 states....

The Donnafugata winery was founded in 1983 by Giacomo Rallo , but there were three generations of winemaking experience before him. A fifth ...

Just off Highway 46, on Paso Robles’ east side, sits Vina Robles Winery . Their tasting room is there, too, as is their bistro, serving a se...

Yatir is billed as one of Israel's premier boutique wineries, releasing some 12,000 cases of wine each year.  The winery works with se...

The little hamlet of Murphys, California is home to one of the nation's biggest wineries.  Ironstone Vineyards is located east of Lod...

Château Peyros is the southernmost property in the Madiran region of Gascony, in France's far southwest corner.  The property's na...

The Amalaya winery, in Salta, Argentina, is owned by the Hess Family .  The California producer also has branched out from Napa Valley in...

Randall Grahm 's Bonny Doon Vineyard stopped messing around with Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1980s, about the time he was anointed as t...

Sitting in companionship with the varietal Malbec and Tannat Troon wines, the 2013 Troon Black Label MT Reserve puts the two together.  T...

This Applegate Valley wine, the Troon Blue Label Estate Tannat 2013, is from the dirt of southern Oregon, estate-grown, and it puts Troon’...

This is not an April Fool's joke. Randall Grahm's Bonny Doon Vineyards currently has four rosé wines available. We have sampled th...

I will admit right off the bat that Randall Grahm is one of my favorite winemakers, if not right at the top of the list.  It's what h...

John and Karl Giguiere set fire to things in their younger years - matchbooks, their father’s wheat fields - and now they look to blaze i...

The wine community in Lodi, California has a saying: "What you call crazy, we call passion." Referring to the long history of ag...

Reginald ffrench-Postalthwaite is billed as the alter ego of the beloved, quixotic, notorious Bonny Doon winemaker Randall Grahm . His f...

Bonny Doon Vineyard has been "a strictly Cabernet-free zone for the past 28 years,"  so it may come as a bit of a surprise to f...

Arriving late to a wine event is not a charge I usually plead “guilty” to, especially when the event covers the whole of Italy.  Every re...

The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame will induct new members on April 14, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio.  It's the 27th annual induction ceremony,...

The famous  Farmers Market  at 3rd and Fairfax in Los Angeles only has a few places to sit and have a drink, and they are mostly good f...