I have mentioned Kapcsandy wines in the past. They are simply amazing wines. As I have stated before, long ago I was reading a copy of Food and Wine magazine and came across an article on the future “cult wines” of Napa Valley. There was a list of six wineries and Kapcsandy was one of the six. Several days after that I went to their website…
Tiedemann On Wines wishes you a festive and safe New Year’s! To prepare you for your New Year’s toast, check out this comprehensive blog on sparkling wines by guest blogger Tom Welsh.
The entire family at Tiedemann On Wines wishes you and your family the very best holiday!
With Christmas Eve and Christmas Day approaching quickly you’ll have plenty of opportunities to pop a couple corks, be it with friends or family. As I did at Thanksgiving, I am going to suggest some wines for Christmas…
In this week’s blog I want to introduce you to the seventh most grown grape throughout the globe. Syrah (si-ra) is also known as Shiraz in Australia and is a dark-skinned grape that is used primarily to produce red wine. It is used as a single varietal and as a blend…
If you read my blog last week on what wines to serve on Thanksgiving, you’ll know that one of my recommendations was to pour a Zinfandel red wine. Over the past years I have become quite fond of Zinfandel red wine. In fact Zinfandel is the primary blend in my Adler’s Blend red wine that I produce in Napa Valley…
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It’s one of several holidays when our entire family gets together for a good portion of the day which is always very enjoyable. The question that always comes up from friends at Thanksgiving is what wines should be served throughout the Thanksgiving Day. This is always a fun topic to discuss since there are so many choices…
Last week I opened a bottle of red wine from my cellar and I discovered it was corked. Over my wine drinking career I have had a number of corked bottles of wine. Each time it happens I am slightly depressed, since I just wasted a potentially good bottle of wine…
On my very first trip to Napa Valley back in 2008, one of the first wineries I visited was Etude. Over the years I have purchased some of their Cabernets. For the most part I have enjoyed them with the exception of…
I have always been a big magazine reader. I am a fan of lots of different topics: financial, food, interior design, travel and of course wine. Over the past 10 plus years I think I have subscribed to almost all of the wine publications available. Some are still in print while others are no longer […]
In a blog a few weeks back, I reported on the winery Switchback Ridge owned by Kelly Peterson and her 2004 Switchback Ridge Petite Sirah. In this week’s blog I am reporting (one more time) on the grape variety Petite Sirah (Peh-teet-sear-ah), the American name for the French grape Durif. The grape was created in France in the 1860s by Dr. Francois Durif…
As all wine drinkers know, corks have been the means of closing wine bottles for centuries. In fact, corks have been keeping wine in bottles since about the 17th century. In 1964 metal screw caps were introduced to the wine industry and they now hold a large share of the wine bottle closure market…
In my continuing quest to educate us all on various wines, I want to introduce you to the Italian wine Barbera. Barbera (Barrr-beah-rra) is a red Italian wine grape that comes from the region of Piedmont in northwest Italy. There are primarily three Barbera wines: Barbera d’Alba, Barbera d’Asti and Barbera del Monferrato…
Not too many months ago I had the opportunity to purchase six different bottles of Italian wines from a national distributor. I am sharing my thoughts on one of those wines, the 1997 Ornellaia red wine, in this week’s blog. Ornellaia (pronounced o-nell-eye-ay) is one the iconic wine estates of Italy…
The actual order you taste wines in is entirely up to you. It is fairly common to taste white wines first then work your way into reds. But this process may depend on how many wines you are trying. If you are tasting a lot of reds your palate has a tendency to become jaded or tired…
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…
