On a recent tasting visit to Napa Valley, I stopped for lunch at Archetype in St. Helena. This fairly new eatery is located at…
Happy Tuesday! Last week I did a savory dish: chicken and spinach crêpes. It’s all I can do to not make another crêpe dish…
Earlier this year we wrote about visits to two wineries associated with Chardonnay, but no winery is as synonymous with that grape as Wente.…
Port is a style of fortified wine traditionally associated with the Douro Valley around the city of Oporto in Northern Portugal. Prager is the…
Malbec may be one of the five classic Bordeaux grapes, but Argentinian winemakers have made it their own. There is some eminently drinkable and…
We recently visited Paraduxx, a winery on Silverado Trail that is part of the same group as Duckhorn. They have beautiful gardens in which…
Wente Vineyards was founded about one hundred and thirty years ago. Based in Livermore, it claims to be the oldest continuously operated vineyard in…
California Girl is in the UK, with plans to visit Barcelona. Therefore, I thought I should try Va de Vi in Walnut Creek, a…
This week’s bargain wine is the 2013 Altitude Project Chardonnay. We purchased this wine from Target; reduced to $3.98 to $7.99. The initial nose…