When I launched WINEormous about two and a half years ago, I had no idea where it would take me. When the opportunity to visit Columbia, MO earlier this year pr...
As we watched the sun set over Lake Washington we savored every bite of organic beets with goat cheese, blue prawns with almond gazpacho and crispy garlic, yellowtail hamachi with foie gras, smoked Honshimeji mushrooms and grapes, Copper River wild salmon with roasted marble potatoes, Ligurian olives, olive oil cured tomato and basil pesto. He wasn't quite done putting the hurt on us.
The 2011 North American Wine Bloggers Conference is now in the books. More than 300 wine bloggers descended upon Charlottesville, VA and despite the tremendous ...
At the WBC, speed tasting while blogging, 2008 Maycas del Limari 100% Chardonnay, 10 month French Oak MT from Chile, 8 miles from coast, breezy desert. Hints of...
"Dorland Enchantment". It's a term Johnny Roberts used when he told a group of writers about reading Barbara Horton's history of Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. T...
I visited the Pacific Northwest with my wife and a group of writers from the International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association. We started in Seattle, th...
The drive up the mountain can be harrowing, so allow plenty of time. The reception at the winery can be no less than frigid if you have not done your homework and made a reservation confirmed by email well in advance of your arrival. Cain is not a winery on the "party bus" tour of Napa.
My visit to Missouri wineries
I spent four days in Central Missouri tasting Missouri wine: Lake of the Ozarks and Columbia, with writers from the Internation...
In the fall of 2010 I joined a group of journalist from the International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA) to see firsthand how Alabama's Gul...