For his entire life, wine lover Thomas Jefferson attempted to grow vitis vinifera, the European wine grapes, in the original thirteen states and most specifically, in his home state of Virginia. Jefferson was a famous wine connoisseur in his own right and was consumed...

Conundrum wines; according to the dictionary a conundrum is a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun, or a paradoxical, insoluble and difficult problem or a dilemma. So why give a wine or as in this case, a wine blend, such an esoteric name as...

Astrolabe; according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it is a compact instrument used mostly by seafarers to observe and calculate their location by observing the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant. Now that we all know what has an...

We all make mistakes, but when an entire industry makes one, it’s a whopper. The wine industry made just such a mistake when they missed out on the newest wine craze currently sweeping the country. In the late 1970’s, the world was first introduced to the fruity and...

It is always a fine day when one is reunited with an old friend and then to discover that the old friend has not changed over the years but has only improved. Of course you realize than the old friend is a wine, but an old friend is still an old friend. In this case,...

There are only a few wines left in the marketplace that have held their price tag, almost unchanged throughout years; Turning Leaf is one of them. To begin with, Turning Leaf is not a great wine; you do not get a great wine for eight bucks. What you do get with...