B is for…Barnyard? You will often hear people describe a wine as having barnyard aromas or related terms like “horsey, manure, animal, etc.” Wines with this aroma are best described as earthy, with animal scents that remind tasters of well, a barn. However, this isn’t always a bad thing! In small doses this can be […]
With Summer coming quickly to a close, we’re sharing some of the best wines we’ve been enjoying this Summer. They are so good, you’ll want to drink them all year long!
Do you prefer Syrah or Shiraz? We want to let you in on a secret…they are the same grape! Syrah is the main grape in northern Rhone where it produces the lush Hermitage, Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage wines. It is known as Shiraz in Australia, where it is the most planted dark skinned grape variety. In the US […]
This week’s top wines were all rated at least 95 points by our panel of wine advisors and includes something for everyone; a Napa Cab, a Pinot from the Sonoma Coast (at a value you won’t believe!) and a Chardonnay exclusive to Wine Spectrum.
This week brought in some highly-rated, hard to find wines including a Napa Cab and a Pinot from the Sonoma Coast (exclusively available through Wine Spectrum). A new red blend from winemaker Bridget Raymond has landed and was this week’s rising star!
This morning at 530am, Harvest officially began in Napa with sparkling producer Mumm Napa starting us off yet again. With the summer months beginning to wind down, kids are getting ready to start school, leaves will soon start to change, and significant others all over wine country are preparing to become “Harvest Widow(er)s” for a […]
This week Napa Cab continues to reign supreme and we saw an impressive showing from Italy with a highly-rated red and a white wine that is flying off the shelves. Here today, gone tomorrow get these top sellers before they are gone forever!
2011 No Girls ‘La Placiencia Vineyard’ Syrah, Walla Walla Valley Wine Spectrum 95+, Wine Advocate 95: In the same mold, with the buzzwords being finesse and elegance, the 2011 Syrah La Paciencia Vineyard offers textbook pepper, olive tapenade, smoke and crunchy berry fruits in its medium to full-bodied, seamless and beautifully textured profile. Showing impressive complexity and already […]
This is one of those weeks where you have to pinch yourself when you work here. We tasted an Italian superstar, one of the smalled and most exclusive wines produced in California, and a favorite producer of ours (Parador). What a fantastic way to make a living. 🙂 2013 Oakville Winegrowers ‘Oakville Cuvee’ Cabernet […]
Thank the ultimate honcho upstairs (or, if you like, any of the many hybrid human/beast transmogrified beings worshipped since antiquity) for the fact that running a business is nothing like doing a geometry proof, where there’s one route to the correct answer with scant variation allowed. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have one very hip, very different […]
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