So maybe you bought far too many goodies for the little visiting goblins and as in our home every year, you are forced to eat them yourselves. Possibly the “little team” collected more than they could...
Winemakers have such a wide choice when it comes to the use of oak; should they use American or French, new or used barrels, light, medium, or heavy toasted, or even oak staves or chips? Let me give a...
Cabernet Franc is a grape that I have always admired, but it seldom is allowed to stand on its own, as it is mostly used to add structure and aroma to Bordeaux wines and blends of this ilk from around...
At a tasting earlier this week I shared a few wines with about 40 clients of a popular restaurant in town and so while they are fresh in my mind I would like to tell you about a few of them.
The Boiss...
I have Canadian wine on my mind for personal and business reasons, firstly because I have just come back from Ontario after settling in a son who feels that four or five years added to his previous se...
You had to have been impressed during the World Cup final when the camera focused on the setting sun between the outstretched arms of that statue that dominates Rio de Janeiro from atop Mount Corcovad...
As July 4th is a significant day for our neighbours in the USA this will be a brief grape history of their country.
When the Vikings arrived around the year 1,000 they called the place Vinland as much...
Two hundred million years ago a tropical sea covered the region in France that we now know as Chablis, and it is the deep limestone soils, formed by sea shells, that impart unique characteristics to t...
Grape Expectations
It is early in the morning of March 4th and as I venture out from the guest cottage for a walk in this lovely 400 acre estate, the rains have stopped and cooling fog from nearby San...
In January of 1920 the United States Government decided that the consumption of beer, wine and spirits would no longer be allowed and this of course resulted in many vineyards being ripped out and rep...
