Category: Wine & Grapes

You know wine and cheese were made for each other. You also know not all wine pairs with all cheese. What is a person to do? Continue reading →

Deep gold color; abounds in yellow fruit, lotus flower, peach, chamomile, ginger on the nose; lemon, yellow grapefruit, yellow apple, orange zest, peach, apricot, ripe pear, minerality/saline on the palate. Continue reading →

Pale ruby color; strawberry, cranberry, red fruits, smoke, grapey on the nose; strawberry, pomegranate, balsamic notes on the palate. Continue reading →

Deep ruby-garnet color; cherry, cedar, tobacco on the nose; cherry, blackcurrant, plum, blackberry, black olives, mocha, earth, vanilla, oak spice on the palate. Continue reading →

Medium copper color; apple, bread, raspberry on the nose; apple, peach, nectarine, bread on the palate. Continue reading →

New year. No matter if you look back on 2022 with a sigh of satisfaction or you are grovelingly thankful to survive another solar circumnavigation, time for optimism. Continue reading →

The past 40 years have been a rollercoaster for chardonnay, the most popular wine in the United States. Continue reading →

Medium ruby color; red berries, grapes, violets, roses, lavender on the nose; strawberry, pomegranate, tart cherry, raspberry, cinnamon on the palate. Continue reading →

Almost all the wine we drink is made from various varieties of Vitis vinifera, a grape native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia. There are more than 10,000 varieties of this genus of grape. Continue reading →

While most countries produce a variety of wines, they also have a signature export wine and grape variety. The University of Adelaide in Australia tracks this and presents the signature variety for the top 25 wine-producing countries. Continue reading →