September is California Wine Month. There’s a ton of travel information on the Discover California Wine web site. While you can easily design your own winery tour, we thought we’d offer a favorite one of our own, the Sonoma Russian River pinot noir 1-day tour. Click here to link to a page that includes winery names, a map, and even a nice place to stay. We do this circuit at least once a year.
Tony Lima has been a California wine fan since arriving in California from the east coast in 1974. He's lived the growth and expansion of the West Coast industry first hand. He's seen the fickle California Wine consumer fads pop up and burst... the craze for Zinfandel, then oaky Chardonnay, then Merlot, now Pinot Noir. On behalf of fellow Californian oenophiles, he hunts for great pinot noir and great values in pinot noir all along the West Coast. His day job is Professor of Economics at California State University located in Hayward. His undergrad degree in chemical engineering (MIT) and his MBA (Harvard) and Ph.D. Economics (Stanford) are the root of his interest in the Business of Wine. He is a card-carrying member of the AAWE - American Association of Wine Economists.
