How to Spot a Snob.


There’s a new book out by author Michael Sanders who spent two years in the vineyards of Cahors and documented three different approach to making wine of the same appelation….
The 29th Annual Winterfest “Wine Tasting In The Meadow” is slated, snow or shine, for Saturday, November 25th at Bear Valley, California. Conditions permitting, you can cross country ski or…

How often have you drowned your sorrows in a bottle of wine because the S.O.B. never called back like he promised? Or just because it was another Saturday night that…
The independent Luxury Institute based in New York City recently released its annual LBSI or Luxury Brand Status Index. Every year people eagerly wait for the results of the LBSI….

I had never paused to think about this. But nuclear activity, even far far away, leaves a radioactive imprint in the grapes (and, I am guessing, in every fruit and…