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...
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.
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...
His wines will be made for the market, but at the same time to his palate. He believes there's a place for sweet wines and rosés, as long as they're done right. He wants his wines to be food friendly, easy to drink and not out of reach on the budget.
Laughter. Incredible food. Wonderful wines. History everywhere. My visit to Friuli in March offered all those things and more. I awoke at Agriturismo I Comelli ...
Several weeks ago I was ecstatic to learn I had been selected as one of six bloggers to go to Spain in October. The trip's focus is to visit 50 great Cavas. Cav...
What could compel two grown men to visit a dark bathroom together? The Pink Panda glow in the dark wine bottle label, of course. What else? We started our March...
Here's a group of winemakers from Okanagan Falls. We're gearing up now for another round of live blogging, red wines this time. You know the drill, 10 wines in ...
