Wines From My Cellar & Others Shafer Vineyards, a family winery, has been producing top quality wines since the 1970s. Anyone who knows wines knows of Shafer Vineyards and their great portfolio of wines. I have been fortunate to be on the Shafer wine’s mailing lists (which allows me to purchase wines directly from the […]
Cabernet Sauvignon, Shafer Vineyards
Wines From My Cellar & Others Kobalt Wines are a product of owner and winemaker Kevin Carriker and consultant winemaker Mark Herold. The winery is in Coombsville California in southeastern Napa Valley. The first wine introduced was a 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon. Kobalt wine resembles the wine Mark Herold made at Merus Wines — a big bold […]
Cabernet Sauvignon, Kevin Carriker, Kobalt Wines, Mark Harold, Napa Valley
Wines From My Cellar & Others Sometime in 2005 or 2006 I was reading an issue of Food & Wine magazine and came across an article on the future cult wines of Napa Valley. There were five or six different wines described in the article. Included was a short description of the wine and information […]
2004 Maybach Materium, Cabernet Sauvignon
Wines From My Cellar & Others My son Ben and son-in-law Aaron are big sports fans. Baseball, basketball, football…it doesn’t matter. They know the teams, the players and the statistics. It is fun to listen to their conversations. I am nowhere near as passionate about sports as they are. I do, however, confess to being […]
Cabernet Sauvignon, Celia Welch, Corra Wines, Napa Valley
This is the third edition of “Wines From My Cellar & Others.” Today I am writing about the 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve from Beau Vigne (pronounced Bo-Veenya). The vineyard is situated on the eastern edge of Napa in the Atlas Peak appellation on the hillside above Stags Leap on Soda Canyon Road…
2006 Cabernet, Beau Vigne, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Robert Parker rated, Wines from My Cellar