Now And Zin Wine

This bubbly wine comes from Weingut Peter Schandl in Rust, in the Austrian state of Burgenland, where bubbles are called sekt. The city was...

Weingut Zull is located in Scrattenthal, the smallest wine town in Austria, north of Vienna near the border with the Czech Republic. The vin...

Stift Klosterneuburg Abbey Winery is Austria's oldest wine estate, says the label. It is a monastery just outside Vienna, where Augustin...

Virginia is one of my favorite wine states. I've sampled Virginia grapes that represent Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Loire, the Rhône, Spain,...

The 2024 Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco di Modena DOC was made with organic Lambrusco Grasparossa grapes from the vineyard in Castelvetro di Modena...

As the song says, "I've never been to Spain, but I kinda like the wines from there." That's close, anyway. A slight paraph...

Prosecco is an Italian sparkling wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. T...

Here is an Italian sparkler which is actual sparkling wine, rather than Prosecco. It is from the Trentino area of Alto Adige, in the Dolomit...

Dassai Blue Sake is produced and bottled by Dassai USA in Hyde Park, New York.  Dassai takes their name from a Japanese proverb, which trans...

If you are planning on picking up some wines for Passover, you probably already know about Golan Heights Winery, one of Israel's premier...

The Shannon Family of Wines has just gotten underway with their Certified Organic Luxury Sparkling wine program. Proprietor Angie Shannon ...

You likely know that Crémant is a French sparkling wine made in exactly the same way that Champagne is made, only in a region other than Cha...

Wine importers do not get enough credit for what they do. The best importers are those with a nose for wine, who can sniff out good stuff th...

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....

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

Bubbly wine is never a downer. Even if you are a beginner at discerning the fine points of the drink, you know enough to know that bubbles a...

The small, family-run Zinfandel specialists Bella Winery make a sparkling wine, too. The Ru Blanc de Noirs utilizes a fairly standard grape...

The Buzz line is produced by the Israeli winery Carmel, which was founded in 1882 by none other than Château Lafite's Baron Edmond de Ro...

The folks at Sonoma-Cutrer are celebrating 40 years of passion, imagination and pride in 2022.  They say their approach to winemaking "...