Wine Tonite!

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 [...]

About 60 miles north of Healdsburg and along some seriously winding roads that might cause motion-sickness for some lies the Anderson Valley.  This American Viticultural Area (AVA) is well-known for producing some fantastic Pinot Noir, so it didn’t take much for my tour guide for the day, Deb Kravitz (@whatdebpours), to convince me we should [...]

James Cagneyclaims he never actually said “Mmmm you dirty rat!” in his 1931 film Taxi!  But, I will claim it proudly come this harvest season in Sonoma as I get the pleasant opportunity to scrub tanks, clean barrels and help prepare and execute crush and fermentation at Holdredge Winesin Healdsburg, CA.  I owe a lot [...]

The idea for the #PinotNoir Twitter smackdown was hatched over wine and wings in my basement with Joe (@SuburbanWino)  and was later fleshed out further over crawfish and shrimp at the Crawfish Shack on Buford highway.  There’s just something about filling our gullets with food that really gets the creative juices flowing.  Throughout the entire process [...]