by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Location, location, location: it means a great deal in business but it means everything to grapes and therefore to the wine made from them. Most of us have seen the legend on a label saying California, Napa, North Coast etc but what does all that actually to do with...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
From all indications, Spain should be in the same class as France as a leader in the world of wines. It was only recently however that Spain achieved the prominence long denied them. The almost total destruction of the vineyards of France in the 1860’s by a small bug...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We believe that it must be very intimidating to a wine buyer strolling down the isles at their favorite wine vendor where shelves display a myriad of wines with strange colored labels, in bottles of all shapes and sizes each seeming to scream out “buy me.” Perhaps...
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...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
On or around Saint Patrick’s Day, an Irish friend of ours remarked “that it was more fun playing at being Irish than actually being Irish.” It appears that John Concannon of Concannon vineyards, although three generations removed from his Irish...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Brandy, in all of its forms, is rapidly gaining in popularity in this country. Unfortunately, many brandy drinkers are unfamiliar with some of the other products of a similar type that are available. Have you ever heard of Armagnac (Arm an yak)? To the uninitiated, it...
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.