LaGayle and I are currently in South Africa visiting the major winelands of the Western Cape and tasting as many of their wines as we can that are available in the United States. On our first full day in Cape Town, after taking one of those Hop-On Hop-Off city tours, we walked up to the […]

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is aging. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Aging of wine is an important aspect of wine connoisseurship, and one which distinguishes wine from almost every other drink. When a fine wine is allowed to age, spectacular changes can occur which increase both its […]

Pedroncelli Winery, located in Geyserville, California, in the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma County, was founded in 1927 by John Pedroncelli, Sr. Today, Pedroncelli is still a family-owned business, now in their fourth generation. Winemaker John Pedroncelli, Jr. has more than 40 vintages under his belt at Pedroncelli Winery. We first visited Pedroncelli Winery in […]

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Recently, we had one of our double-blind private tastings. This time when we sat down for our dinner of grilled beef tenderloin steaks, brown and wild rice, and mixed vegetables, all we knew were that the two wines in front of us were red, but we did not know their region of origin or varietal. […]

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The Cork Jester’s Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion For Tasting It, Ordering It, and Enjoying It by Jennifer Rosen was a stocking stuffer from Kori a couple years ago. I finally got around to reading it and wished that I hadn’t waited so long. I found it to be an extremely entertaining read. It […]

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is Brix. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Brix is the scale of measuring total dissolved compounds in grape juice, and therefore its approximate concentration of grape sugars. It is used in the United States and, like other scales used elsewhere, it can be […]

As I have been reflecting on the past year and all of the winery and vineyard visits we have made as well as looking ahead to the coming year, one number keeps coming to mind…2007, the year 2007. And specifically, the 2007 vintage. We had the pleasure of tasting barrel samples at four different Washington […]

You probably wouldn’t believe me if I told you that the wine industry in South Africa dates back to 1659, but it’s true. In fact, South African wine celebrated its 350th birthday yesterday. During the 1700’s one of the most expensive and sought after wines in the world was Vin de Constance, or “Constantia,” a […]