Dry sparkling wines, crisp chardonnays and fantastic merlots have given the Lenz Winery a superior reputation. They’re a relatively small winery, making wines to exacting standards. Most of thier wines are estate bottled, meaning they are made from grapes grown entirely in their own vineyards.
Silversea Cruises, another name of ultra-luxury, is ready to toast the year 2009 with an exhilarating latest collection of 11 Wine Series voyages. On every wine-themed Silversea Cruise, the distinguished travelers with rage for fine wines can enjoy sampling great classics and discover about the folklore and art of making. To add a little more…
April 15 may mark Income Taxes and the day we close our 2006 financial books in the U.S. But in the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa in luxury travel spot set in the Indian Ocean, the World’s First All-Glass Undersea Restaurant is set to open. Ithaa Restaurant, which means “pearl” in Dhivehi, will be 16…
If you want to have the most expensive corkscrew in the world, then Sveid’s offering will be your ultimate choice. Each one of this is made to order with fifty-two pieces. Most of these are aviation titanium, and is specially packaged in an elegant presentation box. The Sveid corkscrew is extremely customizable, with a fingertip…
I had the pleasure of tasting a bottle of 2003 Zinfandel from Barra of Mendocino the other night. Barra is a divison of Girasole Vineyards and all of Barra’s grapes are organically grown in the Redwood Valley Appelation. This vintage was 92% Zinfandel and 8% Petite Sirah with a Harvest Brix of 25 and 14.3%…
When you hear “Peru,” what comes to mind? Images of mysterious and hauntingly beautiful Inca ruins like Machu Picchu? Snowed capped peaks of the Andes mountains? But very few know that Peru offers some of the most amazing cuisines in the world. At Land of a Thousand Flavors, they want to show people what an…
We’ve got legs and we know how to use them. That’s the bottom line on a taste-off yesterday of California wines vs. French in a cross-continental contest of wines that have matured for three decades. The occasion was 30th anniversary of May 24, 1976, , AKA “The Judgment in Paris” or the “slosh heard round…
Just reviewed Lenz wines on my blog, very serious wine making going on over there!