UPDATE: Check out my post here for the results of the tasting. From the CIA website: This year’s event will focus on Pinot Noir, one of the world’s most prized and difficult varietals. Mr. Parker has chosen a dozen examples of Pinot Noir and red Burgundy, which he will share in a blind tasting with [...]

I love schwag. Who doesn’t? Tee-shirts especially. So I’ve been looking around for a good supplier of shirts and working on a spiffy design. I wanted to make a shirt people would actually want to wear, otherwise why go through the effort and expense? What I finally came up with is pictured over there on [...]

Craig Camp’s Anne Amie Vineyards is hosting what looks to be an outstanding Pinot Noir dinner up in Oregon on July 27th. From the site: What is great wine without great food? A fabulous dinner will be assured as our guest chefs for the evening are Caprial and John Pence, owners of the renowned Caprial’s [...]

The tasting was a great success and nearly all of the wines were wonderful (two were corked unfortunately, one more than we “deserved” given industry rates). As should be expected with a field selected mainly from the Russian River Valley, the appellation dominated the tasting. There were some surprising results from the tasting however, with [...]

Bloggers can do so much with their notes. They are less constrained by length and can offer more backstory than print media, and they can link to other sources for additional information on a wine. They can podcast or vlog their notes. Most importantly, blog authors can also direct readers immediately to a source where [...]