Category: Wine Articles

2012 Big Basin Vineyards, Grizzly, Syrah/Grenache, Estate, Santa Cruz Mountains. Bradley Brown’s Big Basin Vineyards is one of the Santa Cruz Mountains best producers of Rhone style wines and his…

2015 Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage Rouge, Northern Rhone, France. The deep garnet and purple Crozes 2015 from Graillot is a brilliant wine, punching way above it’s price class, it’s ripe per…

2017 Domaine Tempier, Bandol Rosé, Provence, France. Lulu’s pink wine is one of the world great treats and become to some, me included, the right of passage into Summer, the…

2012 Chateau de la Gardine, Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge, Rhone Valley, France. This old school Chateauneuf by Chateau de la Gardine was the almost unrivaled star of a Rhone blind…

2016 Gulfi, Rossojbleo, Terre Siciliane IGT, Sicily, Italy. The all organic Gulfi Rossojbleo is a solid effort and great introduction to Gulfi’s Nero d’Avola wines, it’s a lighter and fresher…

2017 Martha Stoumen, Post Flirtation Red, California. Martha’s Post Flirtation Red is made up of early picked and juicy Zinfandel 55% Grown in pure sand using sustainable and ecologically sound…

2017 Diatom, Chardonnay “Katherine’s” Santa Maria Valley. Another exploration into purity and place from Greg Brewer at Diatom Wines, it’s an old vine Chardonnay, no oak, no malo from a…

2016 Guimaro, Camino Real, Ribeira Sacra DO, Galicia Spain. Pedro Rodriguez’s Guimaro Camino Real from the Ribeiro Sacra D.O. is an old world, old school, old vine based red grown…

2015 Satyre Wines, Pinot Noir “Aristaeus” Russian River Valley. Satyre Wines, Nicole Kosta and her partner winemaker Ted Weisser, sourced their richly flavored Aristaeus Pinot Noir from two vineyards from…

2015 Bow & Arrow, Pinot Noir, Hughes Hollow Vineyard, Willamette Valley, Oregon. The rather exotic Hughes Hollow Vineyard Pinot Noir from Bow & Arrow is amazing stuff, it at first…