16 Must-Know California Vineyards for Wine Lovers
16 Must-Know California Vineyards for Wine Lovers Knowing the names of top vineyards is the ultimate bottle buying hack. If you can’t memorize the thousands of winemakers and wineries around the world, keeping a mental note of which wines are guaranteed to delight and which wines should get poured down the sink, there’s one trick to identifying the best potential bottle of wine: knowing the name of top vineyards that might appear on the label. This trick is especially useful in a large winemaking region like California. Many of the state’s best… Read More
Iconic Chardonnay Wine Producer Finally Makes A Pinot Noir Wine
A relationship established several decades ago helps an iconic California Chardonnay wine producer finally make a stellar Pinot Noir that can live up to its white wine counterpart. As the desire for premium wine started to seep into the American culture in the 1980s, two men, a former airline pilot and the only adopted child of older Southern Baptist Texans, would end up shaping the U.S. wine landscape in ways that brought inspiration and delight to many and irrational criticism from others. Both men followed their own path in the wine… Read More



