Grapelive Latest: Santa Cruz Mountains
Touring the beautiful and mysterious Santa Cruz Mountains is too often an overlooked pleasure and after a wonderful spring Sunday in the green hills I am again a true believer!…
Grapelive Latest: Napa The Splendor & The Silliness
Napa Valley is wonderful in the springtime with the first leaves on the vines giving a lovely green liveliness and the lack of crowds really makes it almost perfect. The…
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The floodgates have opened and the new wines are flowing like raging waters to your restaurants, wine merchants or to your doorstep, and I can say it is all good.…
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Beaux Freres Releases Their Stunning 2006 Pinots I should let my Oregon colleague Alaya handle the Pacific Northwest, as she does her local community very well indeed, but I could…
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It is Almost Spring! This is a great time of year, a time of rebirth in the vineyard and a time when new releases start showing up in restaurants and…
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2005 DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate (Bordeaux-Style Cabernet Blend) Washington State Over the years I have grown very fond of DeLille wines and think Chris Upchurch is one of the top…
Grapelive Latest: Reflections
Grapelive Best of 2007 by Kerry Winslow I am going to reflect on just a few of the highlights of 2007 and then we can move on, as this year…
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2001 Masi Amarone “Serego Alighieri” Vaio Amoran, (single vineyard Amarone) Veneto, Italy As soon as I opened this bottling of single-vineyard Amarone, I was inundated with the layers of hedonistic…
Grapelive Latest: Firmly in 2008 Now
This new year is getting off to a great start with many exciting things happening and many great wines being reviewed for your pleasure, well and mine of course. Grapelive…
Alaya Talks Up Oregon!
Oregon Pinot Noir–Boutique Style By Alaya Wyndham-Price, Grapelive Guest Columnist I am an Oregon Native. Yes, I know…we are truly a rare breed these days. It may seem only natural…