Chardonnay! Truth be told, the Monterey AVA, aka wine region, is vast. Over 40,000 acres of wine grapes grow there, and eight sub-appellations have unique growing conditions. Hundreds of wineries are contained within, and many grape types are used, including Bordeaux types, such as Cabernet...
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Does anyone know how to speak wine?
Have you ever been to a wine tasking where the speaker starts tossing wine terminology around like a truck stop fry-cook slinging corn-beef-hash?
What lies at the foot of the mountains?
You will find Italy’s preeminent wine region at the foothills of the Italian Alps, appropriately called Piedmont, literally pie-d-mont, meaning foot of the mountain. Piedmont borders France and Switzerland and is influenced by both culture and cuisine. Like France’s Burgundy wine region, Piedmont relies on...
Has Donny found a new favorite wine?
Our old family friend Donny (aka the Ump) was over, and there we were at the appetizers, enjoying cream cheese stuffed mini peppers, tiny toast, cured meats, and cheese when suddenly Donny’s face lit up. With a wide-eyed look of wine shock, he asked, “what...
You can make pudding out of anything!
“You can make pudding out of anything”, so said one of my esteemed bosses. So it is with wine, you can make it from strawberries, Dandelions, rice or even tomatoes! Nothing however comes close to grapes, they have the best balance, color, sugar, acid, tannin and juice for creating a flavorful and complex wine that can improve with age.