Category: Pinot Noir
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Equavinity: A Sonoma Collaboration
Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce or create something. The world has known many famous collaborations. Take modern music for example. There would be no jazz music without collaboration. Can you imagine rock and roll without Lennon and McCartney, Simon and Garfunkel, and Jagger and Richards? Sometimes the unexpected collaborations lead to…
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Idling with Lazy Creek Vineyards
The holidays are such a hustle and bustle time of year. Rushing to accomplish last work projects while preparing for the season with shopping, decorating, and celebrations. It is a joyful time of year that leaves most of us exhausted. How about pausing a moment to get a little lazy with a few delicious Pinot…
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Pike Road Wines: Celebrating Oregon’s Bounty
Willamette Valley is a beautiful place to grow grapes. Image vineyards overlooking hazelnut orchards, dairy farms, and wheat fields surrounded by trees. Here the spring is cool, seeing a slow unfurling of buds that leisurely blossom into grapes. This leisurely pace quickens as the seasons unfold and soon the vines vigorously expand through the trellis…
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A Virtual Visit to Landmark Vineyards
I seriously need to plan a wine country get away to Sonoma. Seriously! I am a huge Pinot Noir lover and Sonoma County crafts some of the best Pinot Noirs in the world. Sonoma is a more relaxed atmosphere than its Napa neighbor. It is easy going, less commercial, with great people and great wineries.…
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Magical Mystery Tours through Sonoma #Wine Regions
Do you enjoy a good mystery? Perhaps a thrilling book? Or a murder mystery such as those that air on Dateline? It seems historically television really likes mysteries. Remember “Murder She Wrote?” There is certainly a huge difference between a horror film or novel and a suspenseful mystery. How much mystery do you like regarding…
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Is Pinot Noir the Princess Grape?
Are you familiar with the Hans Christen Andersen short story “The Princess and the Pea?” In an effort to paraphrase and not violate copy-right rules here is how it goes: A prince wanted to marry a princess. He traveled the world but could not be sure the princesses he met were authentic so he returned…
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Villa Maria: Crafting Great Wine in Middle Earth
Of all the fictional worlds I cannot image one I would rather experience more than middle earth. Imagine walking through the Shire or over the majestic mountains to reach the large valley that houses Helm’s Deep, trekking through the Fangorn Forest to visit Treebeard or even better the eternally serene beauty of Rivendell. Of course,…
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It’s All In The Clone
While I am in Italy I wanted to share with you this article I wrote earlier this year. Please share your thoughts…. How much do you know about clonal selections and blending in winemaking? Though some of you may know quite a bit, most of us know very little. However, not only do I love…
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A Soulful Chilean Pinot Noir from Veramonte
Due to a variety of commitments I don’t often have the opportunity to participate in the weekly Wednesday at 11am CST #SommChat hosted by Keeper Collection (@keepercoll) on Twitter. However, each time I am able to join the conversation I always learn great wine information from great wine people. On this particular Wednesday, #SommChat was…
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Spring Showers Bring Flowers and Pinot Noir
April in North Texas brought a tremendous amount of rain. In forty years it was the wettest April in memory and one of the coolest. Though some of the rain came in the Texas size thunderstorms with tornadoes, hail and lightening causing property damage for some, the rain itself was extremely beneficial leading to much…
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