Wine Tonite!

With all this talk of low employment rates, the housing market trough, corporate buyouts of failing producers and the loss of joy in the wine world, it’s refreshing to see more passionate winemakers continuing to put everything they have into their dreams of making great wines they love.  However, in most cases you have to [...]

I found this article in yesterday’s edition of the BostonHerald.com, about the closing of the Quarterly Review of Wines (QRW) after 35 years of circulation.  When I first read the headline I expected to see some tie in to how the world of news and information has gone more digital and QRW was to be [...]

As my most favorite of Pinot Noir loving friends who read this blog — all 3 of you — you can save $80 off a ticket to attend The 10th Pinot Noir Summit if you act now.  The 10th Pinot Noir Summit will once again be held at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District on February [...]

Growing up there was always Port in the house.  My father was in the Navy for 23 years where he learned about Port from centuries of naval history and tradition, which began with the 18th century British naval forces.  Thanks to the Methuen Treaty of 1703, merchants were immediately allowed to import wines from Portugal [...]

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 [...]