Wine Tonite!

Nearing the Christmas home stretch and the wife is in town for our first time not hanging with family.  Just in time too to help “decorate” our new pad in Healdsburg.  Otherwise it would just end up like a fraternity house with a dart board and beer cans everywhere, right?  Late Fall and Winter weather [...]

Today is share your #PinotMoment day on the interwebs thanks once again to host @RickBakas.  Since we are well-known Pinotphiles, we have a warehouse full of Pinot Moments stored away in our memories.  However, below I re-share a moment my wife and I had when we visited the Willamette Valley in Oregon back in 2008. [...]

Perhaps I should change the name of this blog to something that has the words Pinot Noir in it.  I can’t get enough of the stuff!  Don’t let the rainy forecast deter you from immersing yourself in the elegant juice that is Russian River Valley Pinot Noir by attending Pinot on the River 2010.  When [...]

Virginie Boone, of the Press Democrat, shares premier Russian River Valley Pinot Noir producer Ross Halleck’s experience with his first online tasting, the global #PinotNoir Twitter community tasting held in July.  Furthermore, wine country social media specialists, Rick Bakas (St. Supery) and Lisa Mattson (Jordan Winery), also chime in on the benefits of tasting online. [...]

I know you won’t believe it, but crush has finally begun at some wineries and custom crush facilities here in northern California wine country.  At Holdredge Wines, we picked a block last Friday, September 17, from 2 different vineyards: Bucher and Foothills Ranch.  Yes, for many wineries, they would be practically finished with crush by [...]