Do you turn your nose up to pink wine? If you do, shame on you and your prejudiced palate. This week the Press Democrat’s Blind Tasting features rosé since many of the 2014s are rolling onto the market, and we’ll continue to highlight the best and the brightest with other [...]

We can travel the world without ever flying the friendly skies. Wine is rife with opportunity; with it we can transport ourselves anywhere. The Rhone Rangers Grand Tasting March 28 in the Bay Area is a perfect opening to use "wine miles" to learn more about France’s Rhone region. First [...]

There’s good news and bad news when it comes to wine flaws. The good news is none of the flaws will make you sick if you take a sip. The bad news is that you’ll have to part with an otherwise delectable wine. Here’s a quick hit list of the [...]

I have long admired Arrowood, the vintner who turned heads at Chateau St. Jean with his chardonnays in his early days, circa 1977. At his 50th anniversary retrospective, it was a rare treat to taste through 54 bottlings, a pool of wine ushering us through his three-tier career. We began [...]

When Jackson Family Wines purchased the pinot savvy Siduri, it made me think of the founders’ crazy caper. Here’s a recap of it from a story I wrote on Adam and Dianna Lee last year: The bold and audacious couple did their part to tip the scales in their favor [...]

  If you’re a sports fan who doubles as a wine enthusiast – it doesn’t get any better than this. Sonoma County wine producers will be the official suppliers for Super Bowl 50 in the Bay Area in 2016. These vintners will get more than their 15 minutes of fame. [...]

Davis is one of the most entrepreneurial winemakers in Wine Country, so it’s no surprise that he’s behind the first bottling of WHOA Crane Vineyard Pinot Noir. It’s also no surprise it’s knockout. For the uninitiated, WHOA stands for Work Horse Organic Agriculture, and it’s an organic farm in Santa [...]

John Pedroncelli, the winemaker who said longevity is what gave his wine the edge, died at 89 after a long battle with cancer. Pedroncelli had been the head winemaker at Geyserville’s Pedroncelli Winery since 1948. He would have been 90 in May. Julie Pedroncelli St. John, vice president of marketing, [...]

When I tell people why I love living in this wine-growing region, I always say it’s because of all the clever inventors we have in Wine Country. These out-of-the-box thinkers run the gamut – from vintners to winemakers to brewers to vineyard workers to chefs to farmers. Some of these [...]

We know time is the most precious commodity in life, so here’s a quick snippet of information to celebrate Bubbly Season. We begin with a simple question: What’s in a bubble? A tiny bubble is nothing more than a pocket of gas contained by a thin film of liquid. The [...]