That magical time of year has arrived. Harvest 2008 is in full effect here in Healdsburg. You can sense the change in the valley. There’s anticipation, excitement, and an overall sense of “now is the time to get to business.” Mike has already begun picking white grapes at the day job and I can someh ...
There is a widely held, but largely false perception that our food and by extension our wine is somehow tainted with pesticides and is bad for you. The popularity of organic and biodynamic designations are one of the byproducts of this ignorance of the true purity of what we eat and drink. Californi ...
It has been an outrageously busy couple of weeks, with some hope of relief now that it is done. A quick pictorial, but you'll have to excuse the awful quality. My Samsung u740, as a camera makes a great phone. Drive to Down East Maine for a couple of anniversary parties, held on Grand Lake Stream. G ...
I know that it doesn’t make sense to post about some fun day trips to do in the Okanagan while I am on a roll about our trip to Manitoba, but I just feel the need to write something and I seriously can’t think of anything that exciting that has come up since last night to do with Manitoba and our tr ...
On a recent flight from Bangkok to Jakarta, I flicked through the airline magazine and found an interesting article about Thai wines. Yes, also the Thais grow grapes these days. At Baan Khork Chang you can find the HuaHin vineyard ( www.huahinhillsvineyard.com), near the seaside resort of Hua Hin. A ...
While Paul Gregutt named Red Willow Vineyard one of the Top Ten vineyards in Washington State in his book, Washington Wines & Wineries, I got the distinct impression that his ranking was based more on longevity than anything else. As I pointed out in my Red Willow Vineyard: The Mother of Washington ...
Each week for the past six months, we’ve tasted a new ‘Everyday Italian Wine’ for you to enjoy at home or on your Villasfor2 Abruzzo vacation. Here’s the full list ! In Order of Appearance… Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. Cantina Miglianico. 2006 Vernaccia di San Gimignano. Conti Serristori. 2006 Primitivo ...
