by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Whats in a name? We havent got the foggiest idea, but we do know when we see the name Martini on a label we know we are going to be in for a treat. The Martini winery has been around for over 100 years and could be considered one of the founders of the California wine...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
It was one of those days you never forget. It was not a great or catastrophic event that shakes history but rather a quiet, mundane but very memorable occurrence; we drank a bottle of wine. It was in the late eighties, we were lunching with a winemaker when a wine on...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
It is a common practice to pair wines with foods; but why stop there? How about pairing wines with movies? With that in mind, we will proceed to give our recommendations on what to drink while you are watching what. The most obvious choice would be a chardonnay with...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Spanish wines; a riddle, a puzzle and a huge question mark. For over a century, the wine industry has known that Spain should be a top producer of wines, but unfortunately, it has never lived up to its potential. It is only in recent times that Spanish wines have...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
There are mysteries and conundrums to be found even in the wine industry; this one concerns the durif grape. The grape was discovered by François Durif, a botanist at the University of Montpellier, in France, who found the new grape variety at the experimental...