It hasn’t been all that long since Napa Valley’s hot and northern Calistoga area was awarded with its own AVA designation (for more on American Viticultural Areas, check out the Wikipedia article on the same topic). How has Calistoga wine fared since...
By now, many of you out there will have heard the news that long-time Wine Spectator editor James Suckling has left the magazine.I've been trying to figure out why this bit of news has been getting so much coverage.I think the mild wine media frenzy being...
PennLive.com reportedly recently on the prototype wine kiosks in Pennsylvania that have been creating so much buzz – and ire – in the media lately. What PennLive.com has pointed out is that the new-fangled Pennsylvania wine kiosks will contain no actual...
Those of you who don’t have the (sometimes mis-) fortune of living in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania probably haven’t been following the entertaining on-going saga of the Wine Kiosk. This strange idea is the brain-child of the Pennsylvania Liquor...
Watching the World Cup Soccer games has been a whirlwind of excitement and anticipation. Now we're down to the semi-finals with only four teams still in the running. Tomorrow Netherlands plays Uruguay, and Wednesday Germany plays Spain. My hopes are pinned...
By the time you read this, I will be at the 3rd annual Americas Wine Bloggers Conference, as both a participant and a panelist. This year the event is being held in Walla Walla, WA, and the local (and not-very-local) sponsors are looking to roll out the red carpet...