Most Recent Wine Articles and Reviews
No. 209 Gin & No. 209 Gin Kosher for Passover
For many years now, just before Passover, we have written about the kosher wines that are available for people of the Jewish faith. Passover and wine are integrally wrapped around each other with wine playing an important part of the Passover celebration meal called a...
Bella Sera – True Italian Wines
It has been a long time since Italian wines were the vogue. Their time was the 1960’s when Chianti was king. Every bistro, pizzeria and college dorm room had the ever present straw covered Chianti bottle as a candle holder, resplendent with multicolored...
Franciscan Estate Wines
Each winey and every winemaker add their individual signature to the wines they produce. Franciscan Estate has been an award winning producer of wines since 1985 and their secret is no secret; they ferment and age all of their wines in small batches. Why small...
Navarra – Wines from the Basques
“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma†When Winston Churchill made his famous remark about Russia, he could also have been talking about Spanish wines. For years, these wines were a complete contradiction. From the vineyards location, climate,...
Pali Wines from California – Pinot Noir’s that Work
If you are anything like us and the rest of the wine lovers and critics, you bemoan the fact that the pinot noirs of today are nowhere near the fabulous French Burgundies (pinot noir) of the early ‘60’s. Well, Pali wines are trying to remedy that. Pali...
Little Black Dress – A Mia Culpa
Ok, so we didn’t get it right. We thought that a wine label titled “Little Black Dress†was silly, out of place and would turn off buyers. We did not know that the name would prove to be elegant, as is the wine and would reinforce the words of some old...