Wine Harvest Begins While California’s wine harvest is in high gear, the folks on the east coast are batting down the hatches in preparation of the pending hurricane. From South Coast Today: Earl Threatens a Rare Year Ripe for Pinot Noir September 02, 2010 WESTPORT — On a broiling morning under a cloudless sky, Bill [...]
Some Prices are Starting to Going Up If you haven’t noticed, prices continue to creep upward. A quick trip to the mall for a sale will have you asking, “This is on sale? This is the same price it was a few months ago!” Price increases are most noticeable at the grocery store. Coffee, eggs, [...]
Pinot Noir Giant Steps is a winery located in Australia’s Yarra Valley. With their first release in 2001, the company focused exclusively on the production of premium, terroir-driven, single vineyard wines. The name was taken from the first solo album by John Coltrane. The Innocent Bystander label came about when the Giant Steps team decided [...]
Pinot Noir With cool, wet winters, warm dry summers and the marine influence from the west, the coastal Willamette Valley of Oregon is perfect for growing pinot noir grapes. Dr. Loosen’s Oregon Wine Adventure The Loosen Family wine estate in Germany is famous for it’s rieslings. Closer to home, Ernst Loosen – one of the [...]
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, [...]
Something for Everyone Hosting a dinner party or having a reception does not mean you have to spend a fortune on the wine selection. A few affordable wines will get you through the evening and ensure your guests will feel like they are getting the royal treatment. For those of us who are on a [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Vineyard Near Glen Ellen Brings in Season’s First Pinot Noir By Kevin McCallum – Press Democrat GLEN ELLEN — Kicking off the annual North Coast grape harvest, a dozen workers plunged into a dark Sonoma Valley vineyard before dawn Monday and emerged with a surprising find — a far larger than expected crop. If the [...]
