Here’s another sparkling wine that I think is just awesome, and I found it for about $17. This one comes from Mumm Napa, and as you might guess by the name it’s from Napa Valley. One thing you might notice about sparking wine in the lower price range is that non-vintage is commonplace. You won’t […]
The second US Wine Blogger’s Conference began earlier today and I’m glad to in attendance once again. It’s a gathering of hundreds of wine bloggers like me, along with just many participants from within the wine industry. We’ve already done our opening events (i.e. registration, meet the sponsors, lunch, welcome, etc.) and it’s time for […]
OK, so no… I didn’t uncover leaked information about who won the Murphy-Goode Really Goode job. But I do know who the real winner is, it’s Murphy-Goode. In case you haven’t heard about this let me give you the background. The folks at Murphy-Goode wine set up a contest where they asked people to apply […]
This review is different from any other wine review on this site. In fact, it’s not even a review as much as it is an experiment. It’s not about introducing you to a new wine. It’s about experiencing music with a wine and seeing what effect it has. For those who don’t know, there are […]
My friend Kevin Keith, blogger at Under the Grape Tree and head wine buyer at Liquor Direct in Northern Kentucky, has invited me to present the weekly wine tasting at Liquor Direct this Friday and Saturday, May 15 & 16. It’s really pretty casual, not a formal presentation or anything. Kevin asked me to pick […]
If you’re a wine blog reader (and you wouldn’t be reading this if you were not one) then your opinion matters for a study about wine blogs being conducted right now. Tracy Rickman, a doctoral candidate studying consumer research at Auburn University, is studying the viability of wine blogs as an information resource, and the […]
If you’re a budget-conscious wine consumer like me, you know that wine at restaurants is frequently overpriced. A great way to save a few bucks when dining out is to bring your own wine—hopefully a wine with an outstanding QPR that you discovered on Cheap Wine Ratings. But how do you find a restaurant that […]
The first kosher wine we reviewed last week was a Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon from Golan Heights Winery and today we’re trying another wine from the same producer. This time it’s a Chardonnay produced with grapes from the northern Golan Heights. To me, this is a well made Chardonnay. This has some of the butter and […]
I was intrigued when I saw a kosher wine from Chile on the shelf, so I had to give this one a try. I’ve reviewed a number of Chilean wines recently and have been generally pleased with what I’ve gotten, so I was really curious how this one would stack up. In doing some digging, […]
Today we are trying another kosher wine, this one from Barkan. The roots of the Barkan winery go back more than a century, but it was born into it’s current name and ownership in 1990. The winery overlooks a 120 hectare vineyard at Kibbutz Hulda in Israel and has capacity for 12 million liters of […]
