I love Cinsault and regardless if the grapes are from Provence, the Rhone or the Languedoc, I constantly find that wines made from the obscure grape are always dreamy. I first fell in love with the grape when Bonny Doon's winemaker, Randall Grahm first came out with a DEWN wine made 100 percent from the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Last night over dinner Sylvain Fadat, the winemaker and proprietor of Domaine d'Aupilhac surprised me with two new whites he's just finsihed making, just in time for next week's Vinisud in Lattes, France. Sylvain popped the corks on his 2010 Vin De Pays Mont Baudile blanc and his 2011 Les Cocalieres Blanc. … Read more
Started my day at Willi's Wine Bar and saw pal Mark Williamson before he ran off to deal with his quarterly tax and accounting matters. We caught up and agreed to find one another in a week or so down in Montpellier during ViniSud. While at Willi's I met his new bar/wine tenders. Becky and … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Last night a few friends and I gathered at Pamplemousse Grille, the local restaurant of choice for us because of our friendship with Jeffrey Strauss and his outstanding staff. Jeffrey is kind enough to allow us to BYOB with our personal gems so in keeping with our promise to … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Ever since some friends got me into the wine world I've been a BYOB type. Why? It's all about the collection baby. Once you assemble a wine collection, you don't just have it to look at. You want to enjoy and share it. Well, over at SNOOTH, one of the trendy, what's … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Image of Margerum Wine Company via Snooth Image via Wikipedia Over time, largely since my wedding, and now with my divorce, I've not been blogging as much about wine as I used to. My friends who know of my passion, interest, friendships in the wine world, and of my collection, know that … Read more
I now know how famed Parisian, well actually worldwide, chef Guy Savoy felt when he earned his first every three stars and broke down and cried. I felt the same way this morning after former client and friend Ray Haddow of Nokia forwarded me a link to the first ever review of the 2009 Comunicano Wine Company "Double AA" … Read more
I now know how famed Parisian, well actually worldwide, chef Guy Savoy felt when he earned his first every three stars and broke down and cried. I felt the same way this morning after former client and friend Ray Haddow of Nokia forwarded me a link to the first ever review of the 2009 Comunicano … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I have a deep cellar of wines so finding gems that have aged is what I like to do. a few nights ago a few friends of mine and I decided to do the post turkey day dinner at Pamplemousse Grille (I can walk there and the food and staff are so … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Many of you know that in addition to running a technology focused communications agency (now with 23 exits in the last nine years) that I have a passion and deep, deep interest in wine that was nurtured some 26 years ago with my first trip to Santa Barbara's then just beginning wine … Read more
