Wine Valentine

The varietal is Cab Franc, assuring the wine is dry and sugarless. Drinking this Rose as summer wine, or a sipping wine seems too drab....

Someone asked me if there were many red blends. Of course, there are. Winemakers blend different varietals by different proportions. The...

The Michael David Winery produces from the Lodi AVA region East of San Francisco. The area has over 100,000 acres planted in wine grapes....

There’s a reason wine coming from the Walla Walla, WA region is so good. It’s that mix of water, sun shine, grape vines set in Columbia...

This unfortunate bottle got shipped into a winter heat wave. In our hot summer and cold winter months, there are narrow windows to ship...

For sweet wine drinkers, here’s French white wine to enjoy. The grapes were grown in the Chablis region, Burgundy, France. The winemaker,...

When I taste wines from Chile, I expect robustness. This red blend is a grabber, too. The two powerful varietals fight for attention: 69%...

There’s a 1937 duet with Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers singing, “… you say “either” & I say “ither” let's call the whole thing off. & when...

We have a case of mistaken identity with a Chilean Carmenere grape. Back in the 1860’s, the Correa brothers started a vineyard in Chile’s...

Canoe Ridge Vineyard has linked its branding with the Lewis and Clark exploration. The explorers struggled down the Snake River into the...