Gnarly Head, now, there is an intimidating name for a wine, but it is a name that really fits. Wherever possible, the grapes for Gnarly Head wines come from older vines that have been pruned in such a way so that they form a knotted, mangled top and thus, a gnarly...

In this day of free cell phone apps, one must be aware of the old and very true adage that “there is no such a thing as a free lunch.” Somebody has to pay for the food in a free lunch and it is usually the consumer although in most cases, unbeknownst to him or her....

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...

Everything today is initials. We no longer refer to companies by name but by their initials, AT&T, NBC, CBS, TWC, TWA and on and on until we finely to get LOL. With that in mind, it was inevitable that a wine company would do the same; and so it has, “J” Wines. The...

With some of today’s wine prices reaching for the stars, it is good to see that there is still an $8 wine that offers some value. Trinity Oaks makes a complete line of the most popular varieties, all of which are definitely worth their price. The question arises, how...

Winston Churchill's once described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” a statement that could also be used to describe Italian wines. For years they were a great source of low cost, fairly adequate wine with Chianti being the best known and...