April - 2018

2015 Vintage 42 Chardonnay Willamette Valley Vineyard

Tualatin Estate Vineyard is producing a new Chardonnay. Of course, trying their new production was a must! … & if this Chard was as good...

2012 Pinot Noir Tualatin Estate Vineyard

Tualatin Estate Pinot Noir is my favorite American Pinot. I’ve been buying, drinking it since the late 1990’s and greatly enjoy each...

2015 Sauvignon Blanc Wines of Substance

Here is an interesting lable: SB. At first, I took it as a swear word, but read “Sauvignon Blanc”. It is a Washington State wine that got...

2015 Malbec Susan Balbo Vineyard

At our last neighbors’ wine tasting party, a guest gifted us with a bottle of one of his favorite Argentine Malbec, grown in high...

2013 Merlot Kendall Jackson

K.J. does its wines consistently. This’’13 Merlot makes a good T.V. watching sipping wine… Tune in a movie & sip along. There is a...

2014 Sangiovese Torrebruna

It takes a lot of work to get from grape juice all the way to wine. This Tuscan wine stayed pretty close to grape juice. So I'm...

2015 Cross J Norton Stone Hill Winery

Fifteen years ago, we took a Missouri wine tour through and around Herman, MO. We did not find any Norton wines to write home about....