by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
At one time in history, about 100 years ago, Lake County California was earning the reputation as producing “the best wines in the world.†All of this came to a grinding halt in 1919 with the enacting of the 18th Amendment which prohibited the manufacture and sale...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Just when we think that we have completely covered a subject, something comes up to change all of that. The subject was the Octavin wines and their ingenious container that we believed we had covered thoroughly in last week’s column. Then, lo and behold, Octavin...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Are you somewhat peeved by the current practice in the food industry of giving smaller product weight at higher prices. Have no fear, all facets of the wine industry are rigorously controlled so there will be no change in the size of wine bottles or its contents;...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
There is somewhat of a mystery about February. The month starts off with Groundhogs Day and that sleepy rodents prediction of our forthcoming weather. This day of prognostication is followed by Super Bowl Sunday; a day of mass sports hysteria when grownups can again...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We often write that what we are looking for is a five dollar wine that tastes like a fifty dollar wine as we are, very price conscious. We are always looking for quality wines at reasonable prices about which to report to our readers. Alamos is a producer of quality...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
From Australia comes a new series of wines with a wacko name; “Fish Eye.”Come-on, Fish Eye … that name will never go over in the Northeast. When one gets the fish eye from a northeasterner, it ain’t good. It usually is preempted by a finger pulling...
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.