by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We feel that in our rush to tell you about all of the white wines for summer we have neglected the reds. While white wines may be the perfect accompaniment for seafood, salads and all of the other light summer dishes, they cannot stand up to the fare of the great...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We feel that in our rush to tell you about all of the white wines for summer we have neglected the reds. While white wines may be the perfect accompaniment for seafood, salads and all of the other light summer dishes, they cannot stand up to the fare of the great...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
About five hundred years ago, the French decided what grapes would grow where and set their decision in stone and that system still exists today. California is another story. The fertile hills and valleys there can grow almost everything to perfection. There, cabernet...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Dry Creek Vineyard has just released a couple of blancs; a Chenin Blanc and a Fume Blanc. Both of these varieties have had great success in France and South Africa but have had a checkered past in the United States. Up until the 1960’s, the Chenin Blanc was an also...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
There are enough myths, fallacies and misinformation about wine to intimidate or scare off the average buyer and we think it is about time to blow the top off of them. Most of these wine bloopers have been around for decades, some for centuries. Let’s start with wine...
High Vacuum Engineer: Senior Technical Adviser and Feature Writer for Modern Photography Magazine (1967-1973), co-founder of Together Vineyards, an experimental vineyard in South Florida which was the southern most registered vineyard in the Continental United States. Co-Author of several books on Home Wine Making, Home Beer Making and Distillation of Spirits. Co-owner of Camera & Video Repair Institute in Sunrise Florida.