Now And Zin Wine

Great label. The Lady on the Bicycle is an homage to women's freedom during the Belle Epoque, when bicycle sales in France flourished ...

Lodi, California never ceases to amaze me in its efforts to prove itself worthy of inclusion in the the Great Wine Region discussion. Gene...

Sweden has given us some great gifts - Ingmar Bergman , Absolut vodka, IKEA - and some which are not so great - Dancing Queen, Pippi Longs...

We'll touch again on Bella Grace Vineyards , located in the Sierra Foothills in Amador County.  The family-run business produces wine ...

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...

We have explored two Zinfandels of Bella Grace Vineyards , now let's try two of their white wines.  Bella Grace, as noted earlier, is ...

Grenache is a tough grape to figure. A darling of the Rhône Valley, it’s used primarily as a blending grape there, abetted by its likely c...

The way American wine drinkers go after Chardonnay, that’s how Spanish consumers feel about the Albariño grape.  It’s the white wine of ch...

Bella Grace Vineyards is located in the Sierra Foothills region of Amador County, and has tasting locations in the Shenandoah Valley and ...

The Nutmeg State’s wine industry - in the modern era - started with the passage of the Connecticut Winery Act in 1978. Wine goes back a lo...

The Eagle Peak AVA in Mendocino County is just a couple of years old, its rugged mountain terrain providing a cool-climate home to a handf...

Rosé wine is more popular than ever now. Even the guys are getting into the pink. There's a good reason for rosé to be popular. It'...

It had been a while since I stopped in on Larry Schaffer at his Los Olivos tasting room for Tercero Wines , so it was a great and pleasan...

Spanish wine is good no matter where it comes from. I should say, wine made with Spanish grape varieties is good all over, especially when...

A good wine list is a beautiful thing. Even if I don’t plan on having a glass of wine at a restaurant meal, I just hate it when I give a g...

True Myth is a banner for the Niven family , pioneers of San Luis Obispo’s’ Edna Valley. Their portfolio contains some of my California fa...

Josh Cellars produced 130,000 cases of wine in 2012.  This year, they’ll put out nearly a million. They have reached that rarified area a...

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