Now And Zin Wine

An interesting red blend is a favorite type of wine for me, especially if I can name the grapes without looking.  I don't think I coul...

Some people are confused by Syrah, The Two-Sided Grape.  The difference between warm-climate and cool-climate Syrah can be as marked as th...

Sequoia Grove Winery sits on 22 acres of prime Napa Valley real estate, on what's known geologically as the Rutherford Bench.  Minera...

Less than an hour northeast of Sacramento - close to Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Foothills - Northern California's El Dorado AVA has vin...

We have visited Pennsylvania before in the Now And Zin Wine Country series.  At O'Donnell Winery , Norbert O’Donnell makes due in a c...

Red Tail Ridge Winery is the product of Mike Schnelle and Nancy Irelan , a husband and wife team still awaiting their tenth year on Sene...

In the warm, dog days of summer, when you're hot and dog-tired, it's nice to come across a completely refreshing white wine to wel...

Image by Lolita Denise and I don’t really count our birthdays, but we do celebrate them for the entire month.  She gets the better of th...

It was so nice to be included in the #winechat on July 17th, 2013, the subjects of which were some amazing white wines of Santa Barbara...

Hawaiian wine, as you might expect, accounts for a minuscule portion of American wine production.  Several sources cite the Symphony grape...

If you are a fan of Chenin Blanc wine, you are no doubt also a fan of Vouvray wine.  Vouvray - the French wine region east of Tours, along...

Wine events are fun to attend - in vino festivus - but they usually have a serious side, too.  The serious side of wine realizes there ar...

Every summer, I find myself drawn to a favorite restaurant that serves a calamari and scungilli salad to which I am hopelessly addicted.  ...

Some wine writers speak about publicists the same way they speak of a bottle of wine with cork taint.  Necessary evil, goes with the terri...

If you missed the Now And Zin article on Messina Hof Winery and their Riesling, see it here . As the story is told on their website, Pa...

Messina Hof Winery & Resort came into being in 1977, truly in the pioneer days of modern Texas winemaking.   Paul and Merrill Bonar...

Pedernales Cellars - pronounced "pur-deh-NAH-less" in Texan - makes Spanish and Rhône-style wines in Stonewall, Texas, using gr...

Eden Hill Vineyards is located in Celina, Texas, a half hour north of Dallas - heck, that's almost Oklahoma.  Their estate grapes are...