by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Each winey and every winemaker add their individual signature to the wines they produce. Franciscan Estate has been an award winning producer of wines since 1985 and their secret is no secret; they ferment and age all of their wines in small batches. Why small...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma†When Winston Churchill made his famous remark about Russia, he could also have been talking about Spanish wines. For years, these wines were a complete contradiction. From the vineyards location, climate,...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
If you are anything like us and the rest of the wine lovers and critics, you bemoan the fact that the pinot noirs of today are nowhere near the fabulous French Burgundies (pinot noir) of the early ‘60’s. Well, Pali wines are trying to remedy that. Pali selects...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Ok, so we didn’t get it right. We thought that a wine label titled “Little Black Dress†was silly, out of place and would turn off buyers. We did not know that the name would prove to be elegant, as is the wine and would reinforce the words of some old...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Let’s take a great step backwards; no, make that a giant step, all the way back to the 1950’s when French wines and the French wine rating system was king. French wines were known by the vineyard that produced them and not by the grape variety. There were all...
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.