by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
The latest vintage of the big chicken wines, H.R.M. Rex Goliath, are in the marketplace right now. Just FYI, His Royal Majesty Rex Goliath was the record setting, largest known rooster who weighed in at a finger licking 47 pounds. Whatever drove the winemakers to name...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
For many years, in the “way back when,†among the only Chilean wines available in the United States came from Undurraga. This winemaker, founded in 1865, lead the way for the rest of the Chilean vintners to sell their wares here. Chilean grape vines are grown on...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Mirassou Vineyards is another of those old California wine making families. They are the closest thing to a wine making dynasty that we have here in the United States. Now in their fifth generation of wine makers, the Mirassou family began making wine in 1854, during...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
The wine basket of Argentina is the Mendoza district from where the best grapes, for their best wines are grown. One of the attributes of Mendoza is its near perfect wine grape growing climate and the mineral laced runoff water from the Andes Mountains that helps to...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Dry Creek Vineyard of Sonoma County California has been one of the stalwarts of the wine industry since its inception in 1972. Their commitment to produce the best possible wine has kept them in business during good times and bad. They are one wine producer that has...
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.