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">Reflections On A WINEormous Year
It’s been a hell of a year. Until early May, I was selling real estate, or at least attempting to. In March, my then fiancée, now bride, Laura and I spent the weekend in Paso Robles with our dear friends Denny and Jodi Jones. If memory serves me correctly, it was the 5th visit there [...]
">All Good Things Must Come To An End (part 3c of 5)
Our three day visit to the Napa Valley was simply magical. We wound up our road trip on Halloween and kicked off the morning with a visit to the historic Chateau Montelena. After we saw the movie Bottle Shock we knew we needed to pay a visit to the Chateau. Signs of the movies are [...]
">A Sit Down With Ponte’s Wine Maker, Robert Cartwright
It had been more than a few months since I last visited Ponte Winery. I stopped by last week for a tasting, lunch and a visit with Winemaker Robert Cartwright. As you can see, Ponte is all dressed up for the holidays. Owner Claudio Ponte was there and I visited with him briefly before Robert [...]
I think it bears noting that when friends shared a bottle of Rombauer’s ’05 Zin with me a few years ago, it reawakened my passion for wine. It’s still one of my favorites. While we waited for K.R. Rombauer, we tasted superb Chardonnay and Zinfandel and got acquainted with Moose.
">Meet Don Reha – Thornton’s Winemaker Par Excellence
“This is not garage wine-making anymore. This isn’t amateur hour anymore.” Don Reha doesn’t pull any punches. He doesn’t worry about being politically correct. His focus when he arrived at Thornton Winery in 2003 was and remains to this day to produce the finest wines possible from the Temecula Valley. Don and I had a [...]
