We traveled south for the Paso Roble Garagiste Festival 2014. Full reviews will be forthcoming in the next few months. But for today we’re posting an Excel workbook with the names of the...
It’s been a while since our last article about the August 17 Family Winemakers Tasting in San Mateo. But there are more good wineries to be reviewed. Our excuse for the delay is that there are...
Rob Murray Vineyards rounds out our top six from the Family Winemakers Tasting August 17. Despite bottling under four labels, production is fairly small, usually under 500 cases per wine variety per...
[pullquote]Because we make our Pinots from just five small blocks, production is small. That said, we love new members and encourage collectors to join our mailing list. I personally set up members...
Blair Estate Wines is another winner from the Family Winemakers tasting August 17. Another reminder: our top six picks are very, very close. You will not go wrong with a pinot from any of these...
[Updated September 9, 2014. Minor corrections to pricing for both wines as well as their lineages. Route 152 is an even better bargain at $10 than it was at the price we originally posted, $18!]...
[Corrected September 4, 2014 per e-mail from Bryan Vais. We got several facts wrong about the Foray. Our apologies for not doing enough research.] We arrived at Bailiwick late in our tasting and...
[September 2, 2014: half a dozen minor changes per information supplied by Nate Belden.] At the Family Winemakers tasting August 17 we reviewed over 20 wineries and tasted at least 35 pinot noirs...
We had originally planned for this to be one long post reviewing the top six wineries. When that document started approaching 3,000 words we decided to use a more nuanced approach. This article is...
We plan to attend the Family Winemakers tasting August 17 in San Mateo. We will be occasionally live-tweeting. We have put together an Excel workbook that contains basic information about each...
This is part 2 of our review of the Santa Lucia Highlands gala on May 17. (Click here for part 1). Part 1 reviewed the top three wineries (Mooney Family, Loring, and Pelerin) and the best in show...
I was originally going to write one long review of the Santa Lucia Highlands 2014 Gala tasting, but when the story broke through 1,000 words, I decided two parts would be the best approach. On May...
May 3 was a special day at Artisan Wine Depot. First, and most important, it was co-owner and master sommelier Christine’s birthday. Second, she pulled together a unique setting featuring wines...
Saturday, March 1, we seized the opportunity to visit Artisan Wine Depot’s new store in Los Gatos. The event was a tasting of German wines from the southwestern Rhine and Mosel regions. We...
January 11, 2014 was a memorable day. Ken Knox of The Henry Wine Group was pouring seventeen pinot noirs at Artisan Wine Depot in Mountain View. While chatting with him, we discovered that Pence...