Alsace: Layover Edition Our trip to Alsace could be done over a long layover, although it's practically impossible since the nearest major airport... May 31, 2016 | 1 comment | Read More
Winemaking in an El Nino Year A Google news search for El Nino's effect on vineyards generates tens of pages of opinion articles speculating on if... February 28, 2016 | 0 comments | Read More
Basic Biodynamics Many wineries have already or are just about to make the biodynamic Preparation 500, where cow manure is packed into... November 6, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
Organic Wine vs. Made with Organic Grapes Over 8,000 out of the 615,000 acres of wine grape vineyards are now farmed certified organic in California. All that fruit from... August 26, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
What Sustainability Means in the California Wine Industry One of the more recent Guild of Sommeliers podcasts out takes a look into the practice of sustainability in wineries,... August 12, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
A Brief on 3 Viticulture Methods: Sustainable, Organic, Biodynamic The new wine vocabulary Sustainable, Organic and Biodynamic are increasingly found in descriptions of wines we drink and wineries we... July 30, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
4 Wines for Independence Day Drinking Independence-Day Drinking or Independence Day-Drinking? Are they synonymous? Either way, this year we are fortunate to have three days on... July 2, 2015 | 1 comment | Read More
WSET.CMS.CSW.CWE. A Look Behind (some) Wine Certifications WSET, CMS, CSW... Deciphering all these wine certifications can be less than quaffable in deciding which route to take. If... June 26, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
5 More #SundayFunday Activities in Sonoma County Last week, we sent our first five of our top ten favorite activities in Sonoma County. We promised another set... June 19, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
5 #SundayFunday Activities in Sonoma County Sonoma County is full of awesome, not so obvious adventures — that don’t cost a high percentage of your Traveling... June 12, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
20% New French Medium+ Not enough oak for you last time? Here's some more on the topic of oak aging. Click here to read... June 5, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More
Would You Like Some Wine With Your Oak? You always wondered what exactly people are talking about when they say this wine is oaky...until you taste a wine... May 28, 2015 | 0 comments | Read More