Visa Signature and Sonoma County Vintners have planned what is to be the 34th annual Barrel Tasting Weekend and set it on March 2-4 and March 9-11, 2012. This is an invitation and an opportunity to try some exclusive wines before they become available. In essence we’re going to take a sip from the season’s newest wines from Sonoma County. The wines will be provided by premium wineries in Alexander Valley, Dry Creek Valley, Healdsburg and [ Read More ]
Red wine is an exquisite beverage. Kings have been feasting on great wines for many years and our opportunity to taste the style of kings is not to be taken lightly. Today the world of wine is more evolved than ever. Beyond the Old World wine regions such as France’s regions there are new wild wine making regions that put an end to France’s monopole. California red wine is by [ Read More ]
Banrock Station has had serious drawbacks during the past 2 centuries. Situated in South Australia, roughly 200km north east from the Adelaide at the Kingston-on-Murray. The people are known to have maintained a close and beneficiary relationship with the environment thus creating a stable wine making system. However beginning with the 1800s Europeans have settled in the region. Their concepts of agriculture have led to a fierce decline in the [ Read More ]
Wine storage is something that you either do right, or don’t do at all. To be able to cellar wine effectively you must have unadorned stable conditions. If you don’t take care so that your hard earned french wine bottles sit in proper conditions you are prone to open the door to a disaster. There aren’t many houses that have a real wine cellar, however people usually go with purpose-built [ Read More ]
Puglia is the biggest producer of wine in Italy, 17% of all Italian wines come from this region. Out of this 60% are reds. The flagship red grape is Primitivo, used to make food wines. These luscious, heavy wines fit perfectly with the local cuisine. But Puglia has a bit of a shameful background. For years it has produced “plonk”. Plonk is a term used to refer to very poor [ Read More ]
Napa Valley is a perfect region for growing wine grapes. The Mediterranean nuances are indicative to the quality wine grapes we can expect from here. Napa Valley originally established itself as a wine region in 1981. Premium wine production dates back as far as the 1960s, but Napa Valley has been producing wine since 1858 when John Patchett established it’s first commercial vineyard. However things didn’t go so well for Napa [ Read More ]