Getting together with friends to taste wine and have a bite to eat is becoming a frequent occurrence. I like to joke that the pay for what I do isn't great, but...
Roero, located in the north-west of Italy, sits in its famed Piemonte province. Recently friends gathered at my home to taste wines from Demarie at this conveni...
Don't we all want to experience the good life, and not just occasionally? A recent addition to the Temecula restaurant scene, La Bella Vita Italian Restaurant a...
When the folks at the Temecula Convention and Visitors bureau scheduled this year's media day, they hit the jackpot with the weather. The sun was shining and hi...
When I heard about a quality Pinot Noir coming out of the Temecula Valley, I was extremely skeptical. I have tasted two Pinot Noirs from the area and they don't...
We gathered at a friend's home, about 10 of us, with eight bottles of wine to share. Some brought pizza, others brought cheese and crackers, and truffles that s...
Family was his school, he says, and his earliest memories of developing a love for cooking was at about the age of five. Each September all the women in the family would gather in the back yard with 60 to 100 cases of tomatoes and make Pomodoro sauce for the year, while his uncles made the flame and sterilized the bottles.
We particularly enjoyed a 2011 fruit-forward but earthy Tempranillo with its strong berry nose that carried through to the palate. But the hit of the tasting for us was a rich, bold Refosco, with its rich berry and plum tastes—a rare wine in the US that is usually grown in Italy.
Paul V & Merrill Bonarrigo, Paul M & Karen Bonarrigo
When I bring up the topic of wines from Texas, I invariably get a guffaw, a "they make wine in ...
In May 2012, a dream that Mark Manfield and Lawrie Lipton shared became a reality. They opened the doors to the newest tasting room in Temecula wine country, Lo...