Wine Valentine

The experience leaves us focusing on what we have learned: cooked wine.

Charles Smith’s Boom-Boom red blend! Boom-Boom is one of his many funky bottle labels. The winemaker used three reds from the Walla...

Whatever the quality of the grape becomes that wine in every bottle. Here is a California Old vine Zinfandel; the grapes are “old vine”...

Merlot is one of those varietals that is hard to mess up. The vineyards in the Columbia Valley Washington grow really good stuff. Chateau...

A “93” rating? Yes, a well-known taster, James Suckllng, provides rating & tasting notes for many wines. The respected group assigned...

Looking into this particular Pinot Noir will be different, because Willamette Vineyards has so many excellent Pinots. Since the 1990’s,...

Here is a pleasant surprise! It’s a Missouri Norton without the usual heavy tar and tannin taste. The wine is produced exclusively from...

The French fold a lot of stuff together. Here’s another “red wine”; it’s a blend. The bottle showed off well with etchings of a castle...

DYK: There is a “Freakshow” going on in Lodi, CA? It’s been happening for decades at the Michael David winery. The winery features...

Often, I pick a wine off the shelf because of its producer. “The Boxer” was recognizable; I’ve enjoyed some of their other varietals....