Wine Tonite!

Our local Atlanta wine funkmeister, Hardy Wallace, who won the now infamous Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent Challenge and just completed his 6-month stint at Murphy-Goode has moved on to realize his wine-dreams.  And in true Hardy style, it’s going to get Funky! Two announcements have been made today in which Hardy will be shacked up [...]

Ok, so I am going go next in the queue for sending Hardy Wallace congratulations for nailing the Murphy-Goode Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent job.  I’m not going to re-hash the fact he was first in line at the promotional kickoff in California or the other stuff you can readily read in the news or other [...]

Taking this title from a new found friend on Twitter and host of the The Other 46 wine blog, I bring to you some notes from 4 wineries I visited today in the Yadkin Valley, North Carolina.  I hope he doesn’t mind and I have given him props including a link to his site above [...]

Yes, I am talking about Zinfandel.  Many people don’t realize that Zin is often considered the “workhorse” of California vinifera grape varieties, even though it takes a back seat to the better known Cabernet Sauvignon.  Certainly, Zin is not native to the area as its roots go back to Slovenia and the Crljenak grape and [...]