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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 …

“This democratization of wine is great,” asserted Jancis Robinson, one of the world’s leading wine authorities, over coffee one recent morning. Robinson was in Washington, D.C., to promote the seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine, the indispensable reference book co-authored with …

I still remember the first time I crossed paths with a sformato.  I was traveling through Italy with a few friends and we stopped at a local trattoria in the countryside for lunch.  With no real plans for the afternoon, …

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 …

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 …

Italian food is much more than pasta and red sauce, and with The Glorious Vegetables of Italy food writer Domenica Marchetti introduces the reader to the genius that is the Italian way with vegetables.    One of today’s leading proponents …

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. …

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 …

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 …