This is a continuation of my prior article for the 2024 Wine Spectator NY Wine Experience. Saturday morning started with the showing of my award-winning video, “I JUST WANT A ZINFANDEL.” I was presented with an Oscar-type statuette as the first inductee into the Wine Spectator Video Competition Hall of …
As some of you may know, my video “I JUST WANT A ZINFANDEL” won the Grand Prize at the 2024 Wine Spectator Video Competition. The prize included two tickets to the 2024 Wine Spectator NY Wine Experience, held in October at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. I was fortunate …
Last week, we talked about our barrel tasting experience with Star Lane’s winemaker Tyler Thomas. This fantastic experience was followed by another event that left the Wine Ponder guys in complete admiration of such awe-inspiring mastery. As they wrapped up the first part of the day in the underground tunnels …
It was a rainy afternoon in April as we made our way through the winding roads of Santa Ynez (Santa Barbara Wine Country). Our hearts were pounding with excitement. Peter Baedeker, Star Lane/Dierberg Vineyard’s managing director, invited Laurent and I to spend the afternoon at one of my favorite wineries, …
As some of you are aware, I have won the Grand Prize for the last two years for the Wine Spectator Video Competition – CABERNET TONIGHT in 2022 & LOVE THE WINE YOU’RE WITH in 2023. And as I recently wrote, I am working on the third (and final) video …
No doubt you have experienced having one (or more) alcoholic beverages too many. No one likes how they feel the next day. The headache, the body ache, the stomachache, the fast heartbeat, or worse… (You know what I mean.) But rest assured, there’s now a way to avoid those dreaded …
If you happen to be traveling anywhere near Tucson, there is an area of the state about an hour from there that is Arizona’s Wine Country. Wait a minute! Arizona Wine Country?!!! Well, in case you were unaware, every state in the US has wineries… Yes, that includes Alaska and Hawaii. Elgin Arizona is …
It was September 2021 and the Wine Spectator Video Contest committee just announced their video competition winners. I have followed the WS annual video competition off and on for several years. But something clicked in me when I saw the winning video. I thought it was good, but I knew …
I was at one of my favorite wine stores the other day and the person pouring the day’s tastings was Jeff Hurst from Truett-Hurst Wines. It didn’t occur to me until that moment that I realized just how many of the wines produced by Truett-Hurst I enjoy. They make some …
In my last article, I went through the documentary SOMM. This post covers the follow-up movie about ten very compelling wine stories, SOMM: Into The Bottle. You don’t have to have seen SOMM to watch Into The Bottle, but it is helpful. Somm: Into The Bottle – Ten Wine …
