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The Moon Mountain District Sonoma County AVA was approved on October 1, 2013. It’s a feather-shaped region that runs northwest to southeas..

People are rosé crazy right now. Sales have been brisk for some time but, with the heat over the past few months, bottles are flying off s..

Visiting an industrial winery is an eye-opening experience. The scale is awesome, stunning really. The process and equipment are totally d..

This is just a pretty picture of grapes, because pictures of carbonic maceration are hard to find…

Carbonic maceration sounds kinky,..

A view from Pisoni Vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands

Commercial wine grape cultivation started in the Santa Lucia Highlands (SLH) ..

Hanzell Pinot Noir is a particularly well-aging wine relative to other California Pinots.

Drinking well-aged wines can be a fabulous e..

Despite being odorless and tasteless, body is an important character in wine. It adds to, or detracts from, our pleasure in drinking. ..

Packing bottles into a Wine Check bag

Honestly, shipping wine is a pain.

The laws regarding shipping wine are complex and vary subs..

People ask me about wine pairing all the time. It’s lot of fun to discuss and experiment with. But it can also be needlessly complicat..

All you really need when serving wine is a glass, an opener, and a smile. Sometimes you don’t even need the opener, but “don’t try that at..