Our top 6 wines from this week’s tastings.

This week’s tasting lineup brought Araujo, Round Pond, Parallel and Furthermore to Wine Spectrum. Here are our top 6 favorite wines from the week. 2012 Araujo ‘Eisele Vineyard’ Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley Wine Spectrum 97, Robert Parker 96-98+: The flagship offering, the 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard is a much longer-term proposition, even for a 2012. […]

Wine Spectrum celebrates 25 years with release of “Cellar of the Century”

PRESS RELEASE October 2, 2015 – Santa Rosa, CA – Wine Spectrum, a direct-to-consumer wine retailer specializing in assisting wine enthusiasts and collectors in finding unique, hard-to-get wines, is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this October. They will mark the anniversary with the “Cellar of the Century Sale” – a once-in-a-lifetime release of the personal cellar […]

Round Pond Winery

  For decades, the MacDonnell family sold off their grapes to the best wineries in Napa. Places like Duckhorn, Honig, Robert Craig, Bressler, and  Vineyard 29 purchase their grapes to make some of the best Cabernets in Napa Valley.  Round Pond Estate, owned and operated today by the second generation of the MacDonnell family, is a […]

A few beauties from this week.

Here are few of the stunning wines we tasted this week. Let us know if you want to add any of these to your personal collection. 2012 Ad Vivum ‘Sleeping Lady Vineyard’ *Cabernet Sauvignon, Yountville Wine Spectrum 95 The 2012 Ad Vivum is deep garnet red with a trademark Sleeping Lady iridescent violet edge. Aromas call […]

Oregon, Italy, and Napa…what a week.

What an amazing week of wine tastings. We began with Oregon Pinot’s, took a trip to Italy, and finished off with one of the Kings of Napa, Bevan Cellars. While Bevan garnered the highest scores this week, all the wines here are can’t miss.   2013 Bevan Cellars ‘Sugarloaf Mountain’ Proprietary Red, Napa Valley Wine […]

HALL wines continue to set new heights in Napa Valley winemaking

About Hall Since first working in her family’s Mendocino vineyards, Kathryn Hall dreamed of a place to showcase fine wines alongside expressive art and masterful architecture. Now, Kathryn and Craig Hall are creating an unrivaled destination in the Napa Valley—where winemaking excellence meets contemporary design to celebrate life and inspire the senses. In 2005, Craig […]

The Italians are coming.

Tantara and Italy dominated this weeks tasting lineup. The Italians are coming! The Italians are coming! This week we tasted some amazing wines from Italy as well as a special treat from Tantara. Check them out below!  2009 Edi Simcic ‘Kolos’ Single Cru Cuvee Goriska Brda, Slovenia Wine Spectrum 96+: If one ever desired to challenge Bordeaux […]