Just in the event you haven’t noticed, it’s June, and in spite of all of the storms that have kept us inside for the beginning of the month, there is plenty of sunshine in our future. With June comes the time for marriages, sports events, outdoor parties and gala...

Gallo is a name that has become synonymous with wine the world over. With the end of Prohibition on December 5 1933, the Gallo Brothers, Ernest and Julio, went to a library and took out a pamphlet on making wine and from that simple beginning, a dynasty was born....

There was a time, in the “way back when” that the finest grapes in California came from the Central Coast’s Edna Valley. The time was trhe early 1800’s And its frame continued until 1919 when the Prohibition Law was enacted. This alcohol restrictive law sounded the...

Vegans beware; there is danger afoot if you are a wine enthusiast. There are wines currently in the marketplace that do not fit with vegan or for that matter, the vegetarian dietary requirements. Our son is vegan, and often, we cannot recommend a wine we are currently...

It takes a lot of guts or pride or both to put your name on a bottle of wine and Joel Gott has no trouble doing that since his wines can stand up to even the most severe scrutiny. Perhaps he also works under that ancient saying "he who tooteth not his own horn, same...

The California wine industry was founded by Spanish settlers in the 16th and 17th century but it was really given its kick start in 1933 with the end of the alcohol restrictive 18th amendment. Many of the original Italian settlers in the grape growing districts stayed...