Wine Tonite!

Wow, you are very attentive and detail-oriented aren’t you?  I did mean to use the plural version of the word Winner, because we had a tie at the top and, NO, we didn’t wuss out and crown a wine for each location just to be safe   I guess this can happen with so few [...]

Tonite we are having an intimate tasting while the thunderstorms and tornado warnings blast their way through Atlanta.  As widely professed pinotphiles, we are pulling some bottles from some well-known producers in these two regions.  The 6 producers (3 from each location) are listed below, but only my wife will know the vintage and single-vineyard [...]

Moving on to Part 3 of our recent Sonoma trip, we head further south in the Russian River Valley to the town of Sebastopol, where Ross and business partner, Jennifer, Halleck had our party of 6 over to the their house and estate vineyard for a visit.  This is very unique but nothing new for this very [...]

Near the top of the Russian River Valley off of West Side Road in Healdsburg, in an area the locals call the Middle Reach, you will find a relatively new winery (about 4-5 years old) called C. Donatiello.  But, really, it’s an existing winery reincarnated in both name and purpose.  The winery is named after the new [...]

 It was kind of a Pinot type of weekend for us.  The Fall weather really put us in a great frame of mind to start the weekend off with a Friday night fire in the backyard pit and so we reached into the cellar for some treats.  2007 Papapietro Perry Pinot Noir RRV– we received [...]