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February 2022 saw the resumption of the traditionally annual North American Tre Bicchieri roadshow after the pandemic-mandated halt to large-scale, trade-only wine tastings. Tre Bicchieri, which translates into “three glass” is the designation that Gambero Rosso, home of the comprehensive Vini d’Italia wine guide gives to the fewer than one percent of the more than […]
Bordeaux France is one of those places that we always wanted to visit, but had never made it there. On our trip to 2015 France, we planned to rectify that gaping hole in our wine education (not to speak of our appreciation) with a few days visit in September during harvest. As we searched for […]
Our next stop in Nova Scotia was the Annapolis Valley, a 150 km-long valley that runs along the Mina’s Basin, an estuary that is separated from the body of the Bay of Fundy by the mountainous Cape Blomidon. The region is notable for a number of reasons, including; It’s geology and microclimate, which makes it […]
You would love to celebrate a special event with a nice French champagne, but are intimidated by the nosebleed prices of the most popular brands. Relief may be on its way, thanks to the efforts of Champagne de Vignerons, a syndicate of about 5,000 small, mostly family-owned wineries authorized to label their Methode Champenoise wines, […]
We love visiting the Willamette Valley wine region. Whenever we go, we end up buying a lot of wine. While we visited a number of wineries, four stood out don’t this trip: Wineries where we enjoyed virtually every wine we tasted. Among this rare breed were: The Four Graces. This winery, which we had …
Yamhill-Carlton is at the northern end of the Willamette Valley Oregon, while Eola-Amity Hills is at the southern end. Given the diversity in the Valley among these two AVAs, one might expect the wines from each to differ greatly, as do those from the contiguous Newberg and Dundee Hills AVAs. Surprisingly, while the soil types […]