Perched 1000 feet above the Napa Valley floor is a mountainside winery, made of stone and redwood. This place, with breathtaking panoramic views from Calistoga and to the hills beyond, has been home to Burgess Cellars since 1972. The setting is so peaceful, so bucolic, that it belies the buoyant progress and innovations taking place ...
“Nature seemed to have intended Texas for a vineyard to supply America with vines.” -Stephen F. Austin The “Father of Texas” saw the potential…. the future of Texas wine. Stephen F. Austin came to Texas with the first colonizing families in the early 1800s. When he made that statement, he likely didn’t expect two centuries ...
After many years in the fine wine business I have taken on an additional line of work: Product Marketing. My heightened awareness in this field has given me a new appreciation for the exceptional packaging of liquors, especially American Whiskey and Bourbons. The popularity of Bourbon and American Whiskey has steadily been on the rise, and besides ...
We are plum crazy! Monte Jones of Mission Trail has just shared with Dean and I his Plum Jerkum Cider… tart, sparkling and delicious. I’m standing in Vintology Wine & Spirits, sipping, picturing the rolling foggy hills of Central Coast California where these plums grow, on an area that just a few years ago became ...
Riesling is King of the German wine industry. When anyone mentions “German wine,” it is the first grape that comes to mind. Riesling is planted in all thirteen official wine-growing regions of Germany (called Anbaugebiet). The wines that we mostly see here in the United States come from the regions of the Rheingau, Mosel and Pfalz. ...
We’re previewing the wines for the upcoming Go-Getter Girls & Grapes on October 20th! Go-Getter Girls & Grapes is a women’s professional networking and wine tasting evening, featuring global wines made by female winemakers and owners. Tickets are $15 and are available at http://www.elizabethmillerwine.com/gogettergirlsgrapes. ____________ For some, winemaking is a calling. Loredana Vivera realized hers ...
When winemaker Gilbert Gruet came from Champagne to New Mexico in the 1980s for a family vacation, he likely sought the scenic beauty that earned the state’s nickname “Land of Enchantment”. What they found, however, was great terroir and a burgeoning wine industry. The family planted roots, and their 30 year catapult to becoming one ...
Thirty miles from the bustle and skyscrapers of downtown Seattle is a gateway to Washington’s wine industry. Woodinville is a city in the Seattle metropolitan area and has become known for an increasing number of prominent wineries and tasting rooms. I popped over to Woodinville on my recent West Coast tasting trip, and learned how ...
Well of course her front yard is a vineyard! We were pulling off a bucolic road to meet Kerith Overstreet and her husband Brian who had invited us to dinner at their Healdsburg home. Months earlier, Kerith had visited Vintology to introduce New York to her label Bruliam Wines, and upon learning of my upcoming ...
Organic, sustainable, biodynamic… these are some of the trendiest yet most confusing terms in the wine industry. There is a place, though, where one can see the proud growers and winemakers who are putting these terms into real practice, crafting quality wines, and restoring the health of the land. This place is Oregon. Every tasting ...
