A Taste of Wine

Last week we brought you up to date on the big gains logged in by Temecula Wine Country and its 35 wineries.  There are a group of wineries in that district that are making great strides in moving up to …

Most chefs would freeze in their boots and quickly forget everything they were ever taught about fine dining, if they ever had to pair up their menu creations with the best wines from Frescobaldi, a Florentine family whose wine fame …

The Napa Valley names that show up on premium wine lists time and time again are Robert Mondavi and Franciscan, and the select wine events at Il Fornaio Restaurant in Coronado recently featured Robert Mondavi and will be offering a …

Home for the holiday is a choice many Americans make.  The biggest travel date of the year is Thanksgiving Day as relatives and friends assemble with great food, wine and conversation, the centerpiece of this day to count your blessings. But …

From Temecula to Napa Valley and beyond, this is the season of the year that can make or break a vineyard in California’s considerable wine industry.  The state has some 10% of the number of vineyards in the U.S. They …

It fits that the next big event for Temecula Wine Country is the Harvest Celebration November 2nd and 3rd. Temecula is harvesting some big awards these days. From the California State Fairs to New York, Floridaand London England, Temecula’s wines are boldly mixing it up with …

In my wine tasting office in a serene district of busy little Encinitas, I always have an eye or two open for an out-of-town winemaker who may be stopping at a wine bar to shake the flesh and pop a …

According to our friends at Wine Spectator, America is now the biggest wine market in the world and younger drinkers are the most important in where it goes. In 2012, 324 million cases were consumed by 100 million wine drinkers. …

Great wine begins in the vineyard somewhere between January and March as the season matures.  If all goes well and the season ends as it did in 2013 in Sonoma, there will be a collective sigh of relief and another legacy of …

If you are at all a wine lover, you have been to one or more of the many wine events that are staged every week at wine bars, restaurants, hotels, parks and wineries.  Well, you too can be a wine host, …