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Once again I was invited to do a live Twitter tasting (shall we just call them LTt's?) but for a change, the winery featured is local to...

A month ago I was scheduled to do a live tasting (I sure do a lot of them!) with Charles Communications and Brice Jones of Emeritus Vin...

Yet more wines I was sent a long time ago and am finally now getting around to reviewing. This review will be interesting though, becaus...

Oregon has been having unseasonably warm weather, in the 70's and 80's this week. The day are bright, the skies clear, and the h...

A long time ago a nice, courteous PR professional pitched a blogger on some wines. These wines, French wines, were from a well known produce...

Yes, just a single wine in this blog entry. I was sent this sample bottle from 24 Knots winery out of Greenfield, California. The stor...

A quickie. I was sent some samples of Jacob's Creek wines to taste earlier this year and finally got around to opening during our hot s...

Here are some of the wines I've been tasting lately, in no particular order. I don't usually do ratings, so instead of grades, you...

This year, 2013, one of my resolutions was to explore more California Pinot Noir. That's not to say I am unfamiliar with pinot from Cali...

This blog has been quiet lately, with the blame falling squarely at my feet. After months of relative inactivity, punctuated by the occasion...

(attribution: http://starchefs.com/cook/features/chilean-wines) Earlier this year I participated in a fairly extensive tasting of wines ...

After my last experience tasting wine from New York's Finger Lakes region , one which was a disaster, I was approached by my friend and ...

Most of us know Sancerre to be perhaps the best region in the world to grow sauvignon blanc. With soil types ranging from white chalk to gr...

During this year's  Wine Industry Technology Symposium , a group of wine bloggers were sent four wines from California and invited to pa...

(img src: http://www.pinotfestival.com ) A couple of years ago, back when I still lived in San Diego, I met Kerith and Brian Overstreet....