by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Do you believe in magic elixirs? We do. We are not talking about those magic potions dreamed up by alchemists that appear in books, movies and on TV. What we are referring to is a magic elixir that was reserved for kings and emperors on their death beds or served in...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Within the Napa Valley, near the town of St. Helena, lies a little known wine grape growing district known as Spring Mountain. Spring Mountain has been the site of wine grape growing since Civil War times but the region is not favorable to large vineyards because of...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We guess that the hardest thing in the world is going into a store and slapping down twenty or thirty dollars for a wine and not even knowing exactly what’s in the bottle. You know it is wine, you may even be familiar with the producer, but exactly what is in the...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Chianti, that low priced Italian red wine that came in basket swathed bottles and was the darting red wine of the youth of the United States in the 1950’s and was promptly forgotten by the 1960’s. A rather ignominious fate for something that was so popular for so many...
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...
