Over the past few years alcohol levels have increased in wines, especially red wines. The general upper limit of alcohol today is about 15%. My Adler’s Blend Red Wine is 15.2%. Though some wines have higher levels most wines seem to have alcohol levels in the …
Adler's Blend, aging, alcohol levels, cellaring, red wine, sugar levels
In last week’s blog post I introduced you to our new Adler’s Blend Red Wine. There was one detail about this story of the wine that I intentionally left out of that post. I did so that the details wouldn’t get rolled in with everything else I was posting…
Adler Bear Carris, Adler's Blend, art, thumbs up, wine labels
Making wine is exciting and fun, but oh so challenging. Not many folks think about this, but once the wine is made there is little if any opportunity to change the end product (although it is possible to tweak the wine in the barrel while it is aging)…
Adler Bear Carris, Adler's Blend, Lagrein, Petite Sirah, Tiedemann, Zinfandel
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, trip
First and foremost on the agenda of any of my Napa trips is to take care of anything that has to do with our wine business…such as meeting with our vendors, winemakers, etc. At the top of this trip’s agenda was blending new wines. I was really excited about this trip as we were blending […]
Adler's Blend, Chardonnay, Glenwood Cellars, Kent Humphrey, Napa, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc