Last week, I posted an article discussing “Do you pick your wine by the label?” In today’s blog I am going to recommend a label for you to consider trying. Somewhere back in my early days of wine collecting I joined the Switchback Ridge mailing list and purchased some of the winery’s 2004 vintage wines. Today I am reporting on one of those wines…
2004, Napa Valley wine, Oktoberfest Wine Dinner, Petite Sirah, red wines, Switchback Ridge
I was reading my latest issue of Decanter magazine not long ago and came across an article about how people choose wine by what’s on the label. Lately, I have heard the term “label buyers” used more frequently…
wine buying habits, wine label
I have reported in past blog articles on my 9-year-old “Superhero” grandson Adler Bear Carris who has inoperable brain and spinal cancer. He was diagnosed at age 4 and has been suffering ever since. Unless you have experienced cancer firsthand or through a loved one, it is difficult to understand all of the issues and emotions…
100-point, 100-point wines, 2005 Verite La Joie Red Wine, Adler Bear Carris, Aubert Chardonnay, Château Pontet-Canet Grand Cru, Hundred Acre, Kapcsándy Family Winery, Shafer Vineyards, wine dinner
With the posting of last week’s blog, we proudly announced that it was our 300th wine blog article. It hardly seems possible that I have been writing the Tiedemann On Wines blog since January of 2013. When I launched this blog “way back then,” my intent was to use the blog as a method of providing knowledge, information…
300th, best blogs, top wine blogs, wine blogs, wine education
While blending our 2016 Glenwood Cellars wines last year, I was presented with the opportunity to produce a Merlot, something I had never considered before. I knew that the popularity of Merlot had declined since the late 1990s…
2016, Ballentine, Bruce Devlin, Glenwood Cellars Merlot, Napa Valley wine, red wine