Downtown Healdsburg is the rising star of Sonoma wine country destinations. In the past decade, Healdsburg has evolved from a cozy, slow-paced town into a gourmet haven with 30 wine tasting rooms and a multitude of dining options from high-end...
John Wohlfert is a Master Distiller who recreates Prohibition era liquors using his Great Grandfather Johann’s bootlegger recipe. The owner of Wohlfert Craft Distilling rides a custom-built Janus Motorcycle named Black Kat and produces seven spirits with names like Spark,...
I haven’t been this carried away by any white wine since the first night I started my wine journey, decades ago, with a different white wine. What’s my new crush? Carricante, the complex white wine from the slopes of Mount Etna...
Tenute Tomasella Winery on the border of Prosecco and Friuli Can’t remember the last time a Prosecco hit me like this—startlingly fruity, big texture, yet with typical floral notes as well. The winery that makes this is like that too:...
THINK PASO ROBLES-THINK WINE! ONX WINES & VINEYARDS NEW LUXURY BRAND KILER CANYON VINEYARDS ONX WINES & VINEYARDS is excited to launch its new luxury micro-production brand, KILER CANYON VINEYARD (KCV), this coming July! This 24-acre vineyard in Willow Creek,...
Montréal is renowned as a city known for warm hospitality and outstanding food. All these elements come together during the biggest winter festival in Canada, Montréal en Lumière. The city “in light” reflects the excitement of 10 days of gourmet,...
Though tiny, Portugal produces wines in every one of its provinces. And without a coastal mountain range to block breezes, these wines are the definition of freshness. I’ve long touted Portuguese wines for value: higher quality and lower prices, red...
Book Review You may not get exactly what you expected when you open The Wines of California, a new encyclopedic work by well-known wine expert Elaine Chukan Brown. And that’s good. Before diving into details of grapes, climate, geography and...