Way down in an article in the SF Chronicle about wine sponsors like Ravenswood (No Wimpy Wahns Y’all) at Infinion Raceway is this gem: James Wilson of Reno, wearing a beat-up ball cap and scruffy beard, tasted the 2003 Ravenswood Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel ($15) and said somewhat professorially, “NASCAR fans are becoming so much [...]

One of the neat benefits of starting a winery is that you are able to write off some of the wine that you buy as a business expense. On Saturday, while my wife was at our son’s baby shower scoring lots of very nice swag, my buddies Ken and Chris and I went out and [...]

Michael Bauer over at his SF Gate wine blog posts a short interview with wine critic Karen MacNeil, the author of The Wine Bible. He asked her what qualities a great wine possesses, and here are the 7 that she identified: 1. The presence of varietal characteristics in the wine. 2. Balance or what she [...]