Montevina and the Sierra Foothills Montevina is a winery based in Amador County in the Sierra Foothills. We have written about previous visits to…
Our tasting of Markham Merlot celebrating #merlotme month. It’s time to start drinking merlot again.
Baseball Twelve years of living in California have, in the main, not touched my essential Britishness. I still pronounce route the same way…
This week’s Bargain Wine is Broadside Merlot from Paso Robles. The California city of Paso Robles sits about halfway between Los Angeles and San…
Having recently returned to the US, we have not had an opportunity to shop for new bargain wine candidates. However, in looking through the…
I returned home from a day at work to find our flat filled with the odours of ravioli and garlic bread baking in the…
We continue our journey through the wines from Dave Phinney. This week our focus is on Locations AR, a wine from the South American…
This week we continue our exploration of the Locations series of wines, with a red wine from Spain. The label bears the single letter…
Diseño Red Blend is our Bargain Wine of the Week. It comes from the Mendoza region of Argentina and is imported by Constellation Brands,…
This week’s bargain wine of the week is Quail Oak Merlot. Quail Oak is Safeway’s own brand wine; an attempt to tap into the…