February 7, 2025When Sarah O’Herron and Ed Boyce founded Black Ankle Vineyards in 2002, people told them they couldn’t make fine Syrah…- January 24, 2025Michael Hirby and Schatzi Throckmorton, owners of Relic Wine Cellars in Napa, which makes complex small-batch wines using old-school methods,…
- January 10, 2025Every January, we smile at the first sightings, regular as clockwork: people in new running outfits, determined this year—after perhaps…
- December 27, 2024We paid $7.25 for a 1978 Château Meyney in 1981. That same year, we spent $12.99 – the equivalent about…
- December 13, 2024Around this time of year, we cheer “Out with the old and in with the new!” If that’s a sentiment…
- November 15, 2024Last year, when we were the MCs at the International Pinot Noir Celebration on the campus of Linfield University in…
- November 1, 2024When we were new to wine in the 1970s, before America really warmed to it, there was a lot of…
- October 18, 2024We understand that baseball and wine is, unfortunately, an odd pairing. We wrote last year that the NBA and many…
- October 4, 2024We remember when New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc was new and exciting. It was vibrant and pure. Drinking it was like…
- September 19, 2024A few days after our dinner at Melba’s, we reached out to Deneen Brown, CEO of Brown Estate, to talk…
