Last Friday evening, John and I attended the Great Value Wines program at Central Washington University led by noted wine industry professional Amy Mumma. It was one of the consumer courses offered through CWU’s World Wine Program. If you live in Washington state, these consumer short courses are well worth checking out. The objective of […]

The January edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday focused on white wines from Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Northeast Italy (see our Friuli post). Jack and Joanne of Fork & Bottle, the hosts for WBW #41, have posted the roundup of tasting notes from 40+ participants. The experiences and reviews ran the gamut on these hard-to-find wines. No […]

As a mathematician, engineer, investments researcher, and wine blogger, I was not impressed with the recent CalTech study utilizing 21 “volunteers” and measuring their brain waves as they sampled wines. The whole study design seemed a little bogus to me. And it’s certainly not new news that there are people who are impressed by fancy […]

Aloha! The Wine Peeps just returned from a fabulous week in Hawaii. When you think of wine-producing states in the U.S., you probably think of California, Washington, Oregon, or New York. However, there are commercial wineries in all 50 states. When we travel, we like to either visit local wineries or try wines from the […]

A few weeks ago, we attended a Sideways wine tasting hosted by Ross of the Decanted blog here in Seattle. Ross had put together virtually every wine in the movie for a group of about fifteen of us to taste. It was a great evening. After the tasting, Ross posted a report on the tasting […]

As you will see if you read the Wine Ratings page of this blog, we believe that ratings are a necessity for the wine consumer to be able to consistently make wise and enjoyable purchases. Used properly, we believe ratings are definitely a blessing and not a curse. Unfortunately, the vast majority of wine reviews […]

Welcome to Wine Blogging Wednesday! For those of you that are new to WBW, so are we. This is the first time that we have participated, and we had a lot of fun tasting wines that were new to us. Jack and Joanne of Fork & Bottle are the hosts this month, and they selected […]

On Friday night, we had one of our monthly wine tasting dinners. We blind tasted six different California Zinfandels. The four Wine Peeps were in attendance as well as four guests. It was a fun evening filled with lots of laughter, excellent food, and great wines. Among the six wines, the 2005 Seghesio Sonoma Zinfandel […]

“You only have so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.” –Len Evans Wine prices are not inherently linked to quality and pleasure. As we’ve said in the About page, we’ve tried wines in and from almost every major wine-producing area in the world. We’ve had blind tastings and wine tasting dinners […]

One of my goals for 2008 is to learn more about Spanish wines. Most of you are probably familiar with the easy drinking, widely available, great value Las Rocas de San Alejandro Garnacha (Grenache) which retails for $7-10 in most areas. As you go up the quality ladder in Spain, you probably think of Tempranillos […]