by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Hard times bring hard decisions in almost every field of endeavor. The wine industry is no different than the rest of us. Do we sell the vineyard to a larger producer? Do we just forfeit on our financial encumbrances and just give it over to creditors? What do we do?...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
There are two ways to get grapes for winemaking, grow them or buy them. If the grapes are grown, the winemaker is stuck with what he has grown and must go on from there, regardless of the quality of the fruit. Buying the grapes offers the winemaker the option of...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
The latest vintage of the big chicken wines, H.R.M. Rex Goliath, are in the marketplace right now. Just FYI, His Royal Majesty Rex Goliath was the record setting, largest known rooster who weighed in at a finger licking 47 pounds. Whatever drove the winemakers to name...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
For many years, in the “way back when,†among the only Chilean wines available in the United States came from Undurraga. This winemaker, founded in 1865, lead the way for the rest of the Chilean vintners to sell their wares here. Chilean grape vines are grown on...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Mirassou Vineyards is another of those old California wine making families. They are the closest thing to a wine making dynasty that we have here in the United States. Now in their fifth generation of wine makers, the Mirassou family began making wine in 1854, during...
High Vacuum Engineer: Senior Technical Adviser and Feature Writer for Modern Photography Magazine (1967-1973), co-founder of Together Vineyards, an experimental vineyard in South Florida which was the southern most registered vineyard in the Continental United States. Co-Author of several books on Home Wine Making, Home Beer Making and Distillation of Spirits. Co-owner of Camera & Video Repair Institute in Sunrise Florida. 
Wines Without Names , Just Numbers
With our constant complaining about the quality and typ...
