Educate Your Palate By Trying Old World Versus New World Wines ~ The Red Version
This is a lead-in from two earlier posts, because it sets the stage, if you didn’t read either blog: Wine and Lunch With the Somms and Sellers ~ Young’s Market Style Looking to Quickly Educate Your Palate? Try Tasting Old World Versus New World Wines ~ The White Version My friend Chang Liow of Chinois [...]
Winemaker Steve Hall Discusses Old Kraft Vineyard Zin and Petite Sirah’s Nuances
In our video series, winemaker Steve Hall of Robert Biale Vineyards talks with host Jose Diaz, about Steve’s winemaking styles, the 2009 vintage and his own tasting notes. Textural nuances of Petite Sirah add aromas representative of St. Helena. He describes the style of Robert Biale, with two separate ideas of producing his wines. He [...]
David Mounts talks about how to grow world class wine grapes in the heart of Dry Creek Valley,
In keeping with Wine Blog’s dedication to oral journals from winemakers, this is the second part of a four part series with David Mounts. My reason for breaking up these videos is because I’m acutely aware that no one has the time to sit through a 30 to 40 minute video during the day. That [...]
Winemaker Video Series ~ Gustafson Family Vineyards with Emmett Reed
Gustafson Family Vineyard has been a favorite on Wine-Blog, because both owner Dan Gustafson and winemaker Emmett Reed have gone out of their way to over deliver. Both articulate gentlemen are very eager to share. Some people are just easy to be around, and that would be Dan and Emmett. There’s never been a time [...]
Heritage Vineyard Society
This is a group, even though I’m not involved, that’s near and dear to my heart. With my involvement on behalf of Petite Sirah, and PS being a heritage grape variety, I get what this group is doing… Preservation and historical relevance, I can dig that. I’ve been fighting hard for the last nine years [...]
My Dear, Deer Prefer Petite, It’s not just we who do…
FUN FACT: Being in an old Zinfandel vineyard with David Gates, Paul Draper’s VP of Vineyard Operations at Ridge Vineyard and winery in Dry Creek Valley, we walked past a “thin” vine. It was obviously ravaged by something, and just didn’t have the same full foliage on long canes that drip downward like the rest [...]
I’ve Finally Met the Man Behind Zinfandel’s Fame ~ Joel Peterson ~ Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote about meeting Joel Peterson of Ravenswood Winery for the first time. Honestly, after meeting him, all I could think to myself was, “Why hadn’t I met this man before this?” Being in the wine business for nearly 19 years, this is one man I should have made the effort to find and [...]
I’ve Finally Met the Man Behind Zinfandel’s Fame ~ Joel Peterson ~ Part 1
This first video is a photo journal of the 20th anniversary of the tasting room location event. I’m showing you this one just in case you’d like to see Ravenswood Winery and their celebration. The second video below is an interview between Joel Peterson and Jose Diaz, talking about Ravenswood and Joel’s history in the [...]
