2007 Wine
One of the best vintage years for wine – worldwide, was 2007. These wines are now coming to market and with wine prices dropping, there are bargains to be had!
California reds have been slow to come down, but winemakers will have to start discounting in order to reduce inventory. Buyers that once spent $20 [...]
2006 Cambria “Julia’s Vineyard” Pinot Noir
Wine Enthusiast’s #1 rated wine for 2009. “This is the best Pinot Noir at this price on the market. Easily. It’s picture-perfect cool climate, absolutely dry and silky, with complex flavors of cherries, Mandarin orange, cola, pomegranates, licorice and cinnamon spice, made even richer by smoky oak. Just lovely, [...]
1998 Chimney Rock Dionysus Cabernet Sauvignon
This is the time of year we go through the old wine celler and bring out some of the good stuff. I have been hording a few bottles of Chimney Rock Dionysus and decided to open one. This is one of the last wines produced by winemaker Doug Fletcher before [...]
Some people just can’t give up their California cabs. Mike Steinberger of Slate Magazine is one of them.
Glorious American Cabernets
Posted Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Cabernet sauvignon—and particularly the cabernet produced in California’s Napa Valley—is the signature American wine. When a Napa cab, the 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, beat out some leading French wines in the [...]
Crisp Sauvignon blanc
When most of us think of wine with eggs, we usually think of eggs benedict at a Champagne brunch. Good, but eggs are great for any meal. Once in a while we have eggs for dinner and we always enjoy it and wonder why we don’t do it more often. You don’t have [...]
Second Labels from a Premium Winemaker
Ever since Obama served Duckhorn Vineyard’s Goldeneye Pinot Noir at his inauguration lunch, enthusiasm for the wine has skyrocketed. Fortunately for those of us who don’t want to spend $50 for a Pinot, the winery also offers a second label called Migration – Anderson Valley Pinot Noir – a stellar [...]
The Ideal Wine for Food
“In many ways, Riesling is an ideal white wine. It is flavorful–a characteristic that, despite bland Pinot Grigio’s popularity, seems to be a key consideration for mainstream wine drinkers. It is generally not bone dry, just like all those popular, mass-market Chardonnays, and it is delicious with very flavorful foods. It’s [...]
Football and Cabernet
Joe and Jennifer Montana live with their four children in the wine country of Calistoga, CA. Shortly after Joe’s retirement from the 49ers, the Montanas began growing wine grapes. Jennifer got Joe interested in wine when she introduced him to a Robert Mondavi 1979 reserve cabernet, and he’s been hooked ever since.
Now Joe [...]
Crème de La Crema
By Virginia Boone – Press Democrat
Back when Melissa Stackhouse was studying winemaking at UC Davis in the 1990s, she figured any serious California winemaker would go to the Napa Valley and make cabernet sauvignon. Making high-minded hearty reds, she thought, would be the path to glory.
And for a time, so she did. [...]
2007 Come Fly With Me Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
The inaugural release of the 2007 Sinatra Family Estates Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (90%), Cabernet Franc (7%) and Petit Verdot (3%). The estate is a 5 acre vineyard, just south of Calistoga in the northern crest of Napa Valley.
Each vintage of the [...]
