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Sonoma wine tasting room of HALL St. Helena sister property serves Pinot Noirs from Oregon to California’s Central Coast. The indoor and outdoor spaces at a Tudor-style 1930s […]
Sonoma wine tasting room of HALL St. Helena sister property serves Pinot Noirs from Oregon to California’s Central Coast. The indoor and outdoor spaces at a Tudor-style 1930s […]
Sonoma winery hosts tastings at spiffed-up historic adobe. Grape grower and vintner Bill Price owns two of Sonoma County’s most famous Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vineyards, Durell and Gap’s
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Longtime Sonoma County grape growers make fruit-forward wines with palpable restraint. The first Martinellis began growing grapes in Sonoma County in the 19th century, and some of the
Master class surveys Oregon Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, followed by a broader tasting including other varietals. I hit the Oregon Wine Trail on March 4th – albeit in SanFrancisco
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La Pitchoune makes two wines each year from van der Kamp Vineyard. Whenever I see a Pinot Noir from Sonoma Mountain’s van der Kamp Vineyard, I’m always curious
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“Killer Pinots from high-quality fruit” is the goal at Russian River winery specializing in single-vineyard wines. The aha moment that sparked Joseph Jewell Wines vintner Adrian Jewell Manspeaker’s infatuation with
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In the late 1990s, when the economics of dairy farming in Northern California became problematic, John Bucher diversified by planting wine grapes on the 360-acre Healdsburg property his
Bucher Pinot Trio a Total Delight Read More »
Four new releases spur reflections about the relationship between appellation and site. Wine blogger Jo Diaz recently asked me what I enjoyed most about covering California wines. Three pleasures
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More than 30 Sonoma County wineries are participating, with food by three top local chefs. Happy to be attending the 2022 Russian River Valley Winegrowers Paulée Dinner on August
2022 Paulée Dinner Celebrates Russian River Valley AVA Wines Read More »
A little bit “Hollywood Squares” and a lot of fun, winery tastings at home are a diverting coronavirus lockdown alternative. I’m not sure the term “virtual tasting” is
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