Last Friday evening Mrs. Tiedemann and I had the pleasure of attending Uptown Kitchen’s 10th Anniversary Wine Dinner Celebration. Uptown Kitchen is a valued customer of Tiedemann Wines and a partner in our Tiedemann on Wines Wine Club…
Wine Country Fires & Drinking What You Like

At long last the doctors have released me from the majority of the restrictions I have been living with since my bypass surgery in late July. Thank you again for all your kind words, thoughts and prayers. They were and are greatly appreciated. I am feeling great and able to work pretty much full time […]
Bruce Devlin, Kent Humphrey, Napa, Napa fires, Sean Larkin, wine country fires, wine pairingsTasting Wine at Tapastrie

Last week, for the very first time, I had the distinct pleasure of participating in a wine tasting at Tapastrie restaurant in downtown South Bend. Tapastrie is located at 103 W. Colfax Avenue. The building is on the corner of Michigan Street and Colfax Avenue next to the Morris Performing Arts Center. It is in […]
Chef Tony Nafrady, Tapastrie, Tom Welsh, wine tastingNapa 2017: Visiting Robert Sinskey Vineyards & Updates on Adler’s Blend

It is spring and time for another trip to Napa Valley to make and taste wine! I don’t intend to give you a detailed report on the trip. I’ll leave out the boring stuff like meetings on a new website, although very interesting, a tour of the wine label printing plant (seeing the many presses […]
Adler's Blend, Glenwood Cellars LLC, making wine, Napa Valley, Robert Sinskey Vineyards, tripTemper Grille Wine Dinner: Flora Springs

In the last 10 days I have had the pleasure to attend two outstanding wine dinners. As I reported in last week’s blog, Uptown Dining Group and Tiedemann On Wines hosted the 9th Annual Valentine’s Uptown Kitchen Wine Dinner. The dinner was on Saturday evening February 11, 2017. The following Monday I was pleased to […]
California wine, Flora Springs, Napa Valley, Sean Kelley, Temper Grille