by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
There are only a few wines left in the marketplace that have held their price tag, almost unchanged throughout years; Turning Leaf is one of them. To begin with, Turning Leaf is not a great wine; you do not get a great wine for eight bucks. What you do get with...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Gnarly Head, now, there is an intimidating name for a wine, but it is a name that really fits. Wherever possible, the grapes for Gnarly Head wines come from older vines that have been pruned in such a way so that they form a knotted, mangled top and thus, a gnarly...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
In this day of free cell phone apps, one must be aware of the old and very true adage that “there is no such a thing as a free lunch.” Somebody has to pay for the food in a free lunch and it is usually the consumer although in most cases, unbeknownst to him or her....
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We all make mistakes, but when an entire industry makes one, it’s a whopper. The wine industry made just such a mistake when they missed out on the newest wine craze currently sweeping the country. In the late 1970’s, the world was first introduced to the fruity and...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Everything today is initials. We no longer refer to companies by name but by their initials, AT&T, NBC, CBS, TWC, TWA and on and on until we finely to get LOL. With that in mind, it was inevitable that a wine company would do the same; and so it has, “J” Wines....