Cabana is the first of two central valley wineries we visited at Family Winemakers 2017. (Dancing Coyote is the second.) Located in East Sacramento, the official name is Cabana Winery and Bistro...
[pullquote]Cooper had $7.50 on his person and a demijohn of wine. The wine was missing but the money was found in his coat. Joseph Cooper was about 70 years of age, an inoffensive man, and why he...
This is our overview article about the Family Winemakers Tasting 2017 event. We’ve attended and reviewed these event organizers a few times in the past (most notably in Pomona). On August 20 we...
Over at NewZealandWineFan.com, we’ve reviewed Craggy Range. We tasted their pinot noir at Made in New Zealand last March. You can read our full review here.
Confession: we have somehow accumulated a large number of bottles of Lynmar 2014 pinots in our Eurocave. So we’re creating space. This will be the first of several Lynmar horizontals. The wines are...
[pullquote]From the renowned mountain vineyards of Napa Valley and Sonoma to the remarkable hillsides of Bordeaux and Tuscany, The Spire Collection is comprised of the most esteemed wineries from the...
We traveled north on February 17. Our main objective was the Spire Collection tasting of wines from Maggy Hawk. A full review will be coming shortly. This is the overview of our weekend in Sonoma and...
Yesterday was my birthday. To celebrate we opened two bottles of RN Estate pinot noir. These bottles are both from the justifiably-famous Fiddlestix Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills AVA. The vintages...
Two years ago we wrote effusively about Reuling pinot noir. We discovered them at Pinotfest 2014. Yesterday we got an e-mail with some sad news. Reuling plans to stop making wine and go back to...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 1, 2, and 3: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: And we are just about exhausted. Forthwith, the fourth and final...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 1, 2, and 4: Part 1: Part 2: Part 4: [Update November 6 to add Phillips Hill’s 2013...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 1, 3, and 4: Part 1: Part 3: Part 4: Update: I just noticed this audio clip from the tasting event. The...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 2, 3, and 4: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: The third weekend in May we headed north for our first visit to the...
OK, we apologize to John Sturges. James and Christine were kind enough to invite us to this event. They know us too well. We could not resist a semi-blind tasting of ten pinots. While we did badly on...
A few summers ago we were invited to a tasting of Virgina wines at Siduri. We were very impressed by several, including Ankida Ridge. (You can read our full review of this event by clicking here.) ...