by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
For hundreds of years, stoppers made from cork have been the closure of choice for wine bottles. A cork, even under the best of conditions, has a life span of only about 30 years and because of that old wines require re-corking every thirty years or so. Natural cork...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Zinfandel can be considered the illegitimate child of the wine grape family.” It ain’t got no momma and it ain’t got no poppa” and nobody knows for sure where it came from. It probably arrived in California in the 1850’s and because of its hardiness became...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Bargain hunters attention, the latest vintage of Alamos wines from Argentina has arrived on our shores and they are better than ever. Alamos wines have always been popular here because of the quality they offer at very reasonable prices. Their current releases are...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Had the opportunity to review the new packaging of the Pepperwood Grove wines but only mentioned the wines in passing. We intend to rectify that oversight now. Pepperwood Grove is the brainchild of Don Sebastiani. Don comes from one of the pioneer winemaking families...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
In the “way back when;” you know, the past that historians love and school children hate, wine came in assorted sizes of bottles. The 750 milliliter bottle became the most common here because that was the size the French used and at that time our wine industry was...