A fresh crop of Cape wines at Intellego

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
What's your image of South African wine? Big-boned, smoky Pinotage, highly extracted Bordeaux blends, or super-ripe oaked Chenin and Chardonnay perhaps? These were the wine styles that put post-apartheid South Africa on the international wine map. You might be surprised if you tasted Jurgen Gouws's refreshing bottles. Visitors were scratching

Lolea No. 1 and Lolea No. 2 Sangria

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Casa Lolea, from Spain, produces a red and a white Sangria using their own family recipe. The packaging is just wonderful. The white, "Lolea No. 2," is in an off-white bottles with big red polka dots, and the red flips the script. Big bottles come with resealable tops like big

The PlumpJack Option

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
The PlumpJack Group, the San Francisco-based hospitality organization that owns wineries, restaurants, boutiques and hotels, got its start in Napa Valley in 1995 with the purchase of Villa Mt. Eden in Oakville and the vines that went with it.  They re-named the winery PlumpJack after a Shakespearean character known for

Trending: Small and large, pink and red

Becky Sue Epstein
Feature Stories
5 min read
One bright Sunday morning this Spring I put on my walking boots and entered the first enormous hall of the the world’s largest wine trade show: ProWein 2016, in Dusseldorf, Germany. Having decided that this is my year of doing things differently, this winter I was delighted to be a

Wines of the West Bank

W. Blake Gray
Features
8 min read
Israeli fine wine has a Palestinian problem. This is a recent development. While Israelis have been making wine in the country since before it became a nation, the industry was focused on making lots of cheap wine until the 1990s. To make cheap wine, undisputed Israeli territory in the warmer