Category: Napa Valley
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Modus Operandi: Guided by Passion
Passion: strong or barely controllable emotion; an intense desire or enthusiasm for something What is your passion? Do you pursue your passion with passion or do you put it in a box in the corner only to wish you had more time for it? Perhaps you take it out and dust it off every now…
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Grgich Hills Merlot: Sipping an Icon
Grgich Hills Winery and Mike Grgich are American Icons. For wine lovers the “Paris Tasting” in 1976, which awarded the 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay, crafted by Miljenko “Mike” Grgich, as the best white wine in world, is as much a part of American history as the Lunar landing and the Miracle on Ice hockey game.…
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Rombauer: Keeping It Real with Great #Wine
I recently attended an event where the key note speaker told the crowd it takes five seconds to make an impression; after that initial impression it takes eight subsequent encounters to change the initial impression. For some this news is negative, for others it is positive. Really it all depends on how the first impression…
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Hourglass Wines: An Endless Moment of Destiny
Have you ever felt your intuition pulling you in a direct that is unknown and uncomfortable? We are so often afraid of the unknown, afraid of the dark. But darkness is only the absence of light and once we shine a light into the darkness our fears often immediately disappear. When time and space collide…
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Vertical to Heaven: Chappellet Tasting at TexSom
While I am in Italy I wanted to share this article I wrote last fall about the epic Chappellet vertical tasting I attended at the 2014 TexSom Conference. Please read and share your thoughts… I had the great pleasure of attending the 10th Annual TexSom Conference in Las Colinas (a suburb of Dallas) in early…
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Cornerstone Cellars: Constantly Improving Perfection
Cornerstone Cellars is hitting on all cylinders these days. The winery and team continues to impress with their perennially outstanding wines along with the many new wines they are adding to their portfolio. I don’t know what I have done to benefit from their dedication and hard work but they continue to bless me with…
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Finding Nirvana in a Bottle of Rosé
Ah, the heat of summer is here! What do you like to do cool down from the summer heat? Swimming? Staying inside? How about a nice cool Rosé? Oh yes, I love a crisp, cool Rosé on a hot summer’s day. I have been blessed to receive (and share with you) many high quality Rosés…
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How About Napa’s Summer In Your Glass?
We recently hosted a dinner party with some of my new wine friends I met through social media. I met some of them in person last summer at TexSom and others through lunches or at my house. We are a fun group of wine lovers! One of our founding members, Terry of Texas Wineaux, named…
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Cool Spring Night? Warm Up with Cornerstone Cellars
In some of my last few articles I mentioned how pleasant the weather was last month in Dallas. Well one axiom with Dallas weather is no matter how pleasant a week or month began, the weather can and will change in a moment. As spring weather swings from quite warm to quite cool like a…
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A Vacation In Our Backyard with Cornerstone Cellars
As I shared in a previous article, February in Dallas began with many spring like days. Though that beautifully weather did not last and winter hit Dallas hard the last two weeks of February, for a while it felt like California, mild temps during the day that fell at night, sunshine, light to no wind…
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