Artesa is one of my favorite Napa area wineries. Their Carneros location is gorgeous—you can see San Pablo Bay on a clear day—and their reserve
Category: Wine Reviews
Budget Wine: Erik Turner’s Punk Rock Red California NV
Wine marketing. Ya gotta love it. So the label on this wine says “…merlot is known to be angry, rebellious, stripped down, yet aggressively modern. These
Locati Cellars Dry Orange Muscat Columbia Valley 2013
Muscat goes by many names and is grown throughout the world wherever grapes are grown. It is highly aromatic with distinctive fruit and floral aromas
Budget Wines: Smoking Loon El Carancho Malbec Central Valley, Chile 2013
Purple highlights in the glass give away the varietal. There is blackberry and a stealthy invasion of funky earth on the nose, just enough to
Wine Review: Mumm Napa Brut Prestige Napa Valley NV
Ever since the royals in 18th Century France adopted it as their drink of choice, Champagne has been the wine of celebration, marking the joyful
Budget Wine: Fetzer Valley Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
In today’s world of competent industrial winemaking, when you raid the bottom shelf at the supermarket looking for gems you run into lots of ordinary.
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 