Most Recent Wine Articles and Reviews
How about a WICKED WEEKEND?
How about a WICKED WEEKEND? Three days of total abandon planned around sensuous dinners, seductive foods and incredible wines. Well, we would love that too but as an old married couple we will have to settle for a good diner, a good wine and a comfortable bed to sleep...
Port Wine
Port is a naturally sweet, fortified red wine which achieves its sweetness by adding brandy to the fermenting grape juice thus stopping fermentation before all of the grape sugar has been converted to alcohol. Port wines are blessed with a full, fruity flavor, and...
New Zealand .. A great place to grow wine grapes
There are rules as to the locations for growing wine grapes that are most specific. Growers must take into consideration temperature, both day and night, air moisture, wind, soil, and insects. In the Bordeaux region of Southeastern France it has been found over...
The Chilean earthquake and its aftermath
We are all aware of the huge 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile a few weeks ago and the devastation that it wrought. This monster quake not only effected every facet of Chilean life, but it also took a devastating toll on one of Chile’s most important...
Samuel Bronfman & Crown Royal
Have you ever heard the name Samuel Bronfman? He was a Canadian who, in 1924, started a little company in Montreal called Distillers Corporation. With prohibition only five years old in the United States, the call for alcohol from Canada was insatiable. Since there...
Pepperwood Grove wines
The latest wine releases from Pepperwood Grove, are now on dealer’s shelves and in restaurants. Pepperwood Grove wines, all of them, are, in our opinion, among the best buys in the wine marketplace today. They represent a well made, full flavored series of...