You can tell it’s spring by the weather, the bright clothing , the smoking barbecues and the appearance of the new wines of this vintage season. We recently came across several little known but very worthy wines and felt it was our duty to bring them to your...

Location, location, location: it means a great deal in business but it means everything to grapes and therefore to the wine made from them. Most of us have seen the legend on a label saying California, Napa, North Coast etc but what does all that actually to do with...

From all indications, Spain should be in the same class as France as a leader in the world of wines. It was only recently however that Spain achieved the prominence long denied them. The almost total destruction of the vineyards of France in the 1860’s by a small bug...

We believe that it must be very intimidating to a wine buyer strolling down the isles at their favorite wine vendor where shelves display a myriad of wines with strange colored labels, in bottles of all shapes and sizes each seeming to scream out “buy me.” Perhaps...

There are enough myths, fallacies and misinformation about wine to intimidate or scare off the average buyer and we think it is about time to blow the top off of them. Most of these wine bloopers have been around for decades, some for centuries. Let’s start with wine...

On or around Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish friend of ours remarked "that it was more fun playing at being Irish than actually being Irish." It appears that John Concannon of Concannon vineyards, although three generations removed from his Irish antecedents, takes...