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...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
There is a certain indescribable something about the wines of South Africa. Yes, the flavors of each variety are familiar as are the aromas and yes the varieties are identical to those grown in most winemaking countries on this planet. So why buy wines from one...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
Dancing Bull wines; now there is a name we could have had some fun with if we had not promised to stop complaining about wacky wine labels. The thought however does cross our minds on what else we would call this wine had we not reformed. Terpsichorean Male Bovine...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews
We were told by some of the wines gurus when we first began writing about wine that when our taste for wine truly matures we will learn to appreciate the cabernet sauvignon. Our answer to them was that we had been there and gone and have graduated to the true beauties...