As usual, our family and friends popped a lot of good bottles for Thanksgiving this year and Fred Scherrer's 2005 Russian River Pinot rose to the top of the list last night. I went to Fred's open house at the winery in Sebastapol near Graton last...

Last week I attended the annual Terry Theise Grower Champagne tasting (now my favorite tasting all year), and it really hit me. All my readers should be drinking Farmer Fizz. Why? I think most of my readership has found me through searches for...

Here's another way for wine to make you feel good. Agent for Change is a portfolio of wines that donates a portion of the proceeds from each bottle to a worthy cause, this 2006 Paso Robles Zinfandel donating 50% to healthcare outreach and clinical care...

  The generous folks over at Random House sent me a copy of an amazing book, Living With Wine and if you're building an even moderately grand wine cellar, you would be crazy not to have this by your bedside while you dream. While I was sucked in and...

I love this wine just on a visceral level, but appreciate it even more on a technical level. If you look at the tech docs on this wine, a few things pop out that seem incongruous to the end product. Roughly 100% went through malolactic fermentation and...