Category Archives: Wine Blog

Critics’ Choices Tasting What do all the wines in this weekend’s flight have in common? The wine critics absolutely love them. This week’s tasting includes a wildly popular Argentinean sparkler and four other wines all rated 90 points or better … Continue reading →

“Bill’s Best Bets Tasting” This week’s flight of wines comes from selections that I have particularly enjoyed over the last year. What they have in common is that they are all quality wines as well as being terrific bargains. We … Continue reading →

The Great Finds Tasting” Our guest host this week, Patrick Campbell, has a knack of finding off-the-beaten-track wines that are terrific bargains as well as being delicious. This weekend, while regular host Bill Callahan is away on vacation, the Tall … Continue reading →

“The Off’the-Beaten Path Tasting” We’ll take a stroll a bit off the beaten track this weekend and sample a luscious assortment of wines from quality producers in Mendocino, the Santa Rita Hills, the Sierra Foothills and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. We’ll … Continue reading →

“The Aussie Tasting” Let’s go Down Under this week as for the first time in a long while we sample wines from our Australian mates. We’ve got a 90-plus rated Aussie version of a GSM that is delicious and a … Continue reading →

The Summer Special Tasting We indeed have something special for our summer tasters this week as the featured wine will be the 2006 Casa Lapostolle Clos Apalta. The 2005 vintage won Wine Spectator’s #1 wine of the year rating and … Continue reading →

“The Jack to a Queen Tasting” Well, we’re all over the map with this tasting but we’ll take our theme from the starting and finishing wines from Napa’s JAQK Cellars, beginning with the JAQK Her Majesty Chardonnay. From there we’ll … Continue reading →

It’s summertime and living is easy and this week’s tasting features a flight of wines that are smooth on the palate and easy on the wallet. This week we’re sampling a Mendocino Chardonnay, and four California reds: a lovely Luli … Continue reading →

Some of our wines are steady sellers because they are customer favorites and we’ll share some of them with you at this weekend’s tasting. What they all have in common is that they are particularly food-friendly. We’ll start off with … Continue reading →