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Passion for pinot that is. As a judge for the 8th Annual Pinot Noir Summit, on Feburary 27th, I am able to offer you my dear readers a 20% discount off of the ticket price. click me I hope you will take advantae of this offer, and join me in San Rafael in two weeks for [...]
Benziger Family Vineyards sits inside an eruption cauldron, part of Sonoma Mountain, in Glen Ellen. One beautiful early fall day, they took on a group of bloggers and showed us the VIP treatment and gave us a nice education and tasting lesson behind the scenes. Here at Benziger, the practice [...] Davis Bynum has quite a history to live up to, as the first winery to produce a single vineyard pinot noir from the Russian River Valley. Now, three decades later, the winery was sold to the Rodney Strong family of wineries, through Klein family, who has farmed here for 4 generations.
A Cellar Rat! When I first met Alan Baker, aka @thecellarrat, I was in my first year of making a mess wine at Crushpad. What I didn’t know, or rather, the connection I failed to make, is that he was the same Alan Baker who was the voice behind this crazy podcast that I had [...]
Early in September, my friend and fellow blogger, Chris Oggenfuss of Vintuba and also Benziger Family Winery tweeted something about a day of pinot up at the farm (winery). Far be it for me to miss a pinot party, so off I went to Glen Ellen to visit Benziger, something I hadn’t done [...] Where does the time go? The Second Annual Winebloggers Conference has already come and gone, and I am left wondering “what the heck was that bus that rolled over me “.As one of the voices behind the curtain of the WBC Scholarship, and as a huge cheerleader, proponent and fan of the WBC, I am [...] A while back, I expressed my frustration at the lack of a Press & Trade portion of the Annual Pinot Days Celebration in San Francisco, coming up on June 28th. I am happy to be able to eat my words, sort of. Even thought they producers of the event were not willing to participate in [...] Ok well, no not really, but I made you look right? Seriously though, I have my own baby! My own little baby itty bitty delicious not yet fruit bearing vine! At the graciousness of Hahn Family Wines, a group of bloggers got together and planted The Bloggers Block, at Hahn Family Winery in the Santa Lucia [...] I first found MacPhail Wines at a tasting held at San Francisco Wine Trading Company last year, at the recommendation of my friend. Since i know he is a bigger wino than I am – NO! It’s true Alex you are! – I couldn’t miss it, and I knew that I would be blown away. [...]
I first met Uzi Cohen, and his wife Kathryn, at at event at Crushpad about a year ago. After spending some time talking about the wines we were drinking, I came to learn that he actually made wine himself. Lo and behold after much planning and anticipation, I finally got to do some barrel [...] |
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