Martha Stewart & Chardonnay
California Chardonnay Looking for a pleasant California Chardonnay. We found our tasting notes to shine with stone fruit, hints of vanilla and caramel oak rounding the palate. Finishing with a refreshing crispness. For a everyday easy to drink chardonnay we give this a thumbs up Let us know your...
Did You Know …… Wine Fact #18
That in 1800BC, the ruler of Babylon issued a series of laws that was known as the Code of Hammurabi. In it, is states that anyone caught selling fraudulent wine would be put to death by drowning in a river. Don’t you think the better punishment would have been...
2017 Ensedune Petit Verdot
The Petit Verdot grape usually doesn’t roll off a wine lovers tongue. They are also not the most sought after bottles in the wine world. Believe me, they should be. Loaded with everything black on the berry front: jammy black cherry, black raspberry and black currants up front, with...
Did You Know…… Wine Fact #17
Agoston Haraszthy, who first started the Buena Vista Winery in 1857, brought over 100,000 vine cuttings from Europe to California back in 1861. The California legislature never paid him for his efforts, a broken promise that bankrupted the father of the California wine industry....
2017 Russell B Gregory Sangiovese
Sangiovese, the noble grape of Italy’s Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Villa Nobile di Montelpulciano producers, are some of the finest examples of wines in the world. Yet, there is no need to look overseas for such quality, its right here in your own backyard. Sourced from a renowned...
1928 Ayala Champagne
It was a few years ago, a good customer brought in to our store his prized double magnum of vintage Champagne. He often wondered how a great old sparkling would taste and asked for our help on how to open and pour the bubbly. The cork itself was fused...
How many grapes are in any given bottle of wine?
A standard 750ml bottle contains about 2.75 pounds of grapes, which is about 11 clusters, for a total of around 550 grapes....
Cabernet in the Morning
High atop Diamond Mountain in Napa Valley, morning fog coats Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that are near ready for harvest....
Did You Know……. Wine Fact #16
In the Bordeaux region of France, Margaux is the largest of its regions within the appellation while Pomerol is the smallest. The Graves region is known to be the oldest. Others include Pauilliac, Pessac-Leognan, St. Emillion and Medoc, still yet many other sub-regions are included throughout the entire appellation....
What a Fiasco.
The straw covered bottles of Chianti or Valpolicella are called a fiasco....