Wine Tonite!

As originally posted on the Wine Bloggers Conference blog: The inaugural Wine Tourism Conference was held November 16-17 at the newly revived Napa Marriott hot on the heels of yet another inaugural Napa event, the Napa Valley Film Festival.  This is the first conference focused on increasing and enhancing tourism to wine regions around the [...]

When we lived in Atlanta we visited “wine country” many times.  No visit was ever void of special moments.  Those special times when everything is relaxed and in order and it just feels good.  And there would usually be a glass of wine in hand.  But, living here all the time has made me wonder [...]

Visiting a winery is one of the great adventures any wine lover should strive to experience at least once. Every continental state has a winery now, so it should be fairly easy to find wine country near you. We try to take a wine country vacation at least once a year to detox from the [...]

We have been planning a trip to Sonoma for past several weeks and much like planning for any vacation, it takes some time to prepare an itinerary especially when you’re looking to visit several wineries a day.  There are several approaches we like to use and after polling some wine friends, we’ve learned of other [...]

It’s not springtime but it sure feels like it here in Sonoma.  Clear, blue skies and a slight chill in the mornings probably in the upper 50′s, with the early afternoons warming up nicely but nothinglike the summer sun I’m used to in “Hot”lanta.  We spent much of our 2nd day of the Wine Blogger’s [...]