St. Helena’s Barnett Vineyards has a new winemaker
I’ve just been catching up on wine news in the San Francisco Chronicle, and I see that one of my wine-tasting companions from yesteryear, David Tate, is the new winemaker of Barnett Vineyards. Congratulations, bud!
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I’ve just been catching up on wine news in the San Francisco Chronicle, and I see that one of my wine-tasting companions from yesteryear, David Tate, is the new winemaker of Barnett Vineyards, an esteemed small-lot producer in St. Helena’s Spring Mountain district, above Napa Valley. Well, since it’s in the Chronicle, it must be […]

A humorous “Top 10″ look at Hiking for Fitness
Top Ten Reasons Why Hiking Is Better Than A Gym Membership.
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A gadget that red wine lovers might want handy
Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial of the (DAG-GONE!) drill sergeant who nearly goes apoplectic at the sleight of hand […]

Debbie Miller Nelson at Wine Goddess posts today about a Wine Lover’s Best Friend. I think she’s onto something. Lord knows I could keep a few handy in my dining room, in my truck, even in my Camelbak.

Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial of the (DAG-GONE!) drill sergeant who nearly goes apoplectic at the sleight of hand performed […]

I got a chuckle this morning out of reading Tom Mangan’s latest post over at Two Heel Drive. Naturally I felt compelled to make slight alterations, wine-wise, as well as to reverse the order of Tom’s Top Ten List a la David Letterman.
Top Ten Reasons Why Hiking Is Better Than A Gym Membership
10. In […]

A few miles of weekend driving home from Marin County had me daydreaming. Since last week’s discussion of standardizing wine ratings among bloggers, I found my thoughts morphing into whimsy. When I arrived home, I thought I’d see how my blog stacks up. Apparently I offer good family entertainment.

We’re keepin’ it healthy and wholesome here at Winehiker […]

I am reminded by fellow blogger Lisa at Sunset Pig that Life can be so simple, so sweet, and yet so overlooked when everything else gets in the way of it.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.
— Henry James
Do your soul a fine favor this evening, and get […]

This wine-scoring game seems to have folks on the edge of their seats. Game over?
There’s a proposal circulating among us wine bloggers to adopt a standard approach to how we rate wine. In a recent post, fellow blogger Tim Elliott of WineCast asks, Is it possible for wine bloggers to choose a single rating system?
I […]

Change is inevitable, because change is also natural. To survive change is to adapt to change. To resist change is to attempt to protect antiquarian ways, to live in denial, to peddle influence.
There’s a cold war going on between wine sellers and wine distributors. The wine consumer is discovering new wines online, and the distributors […]

The Russian River Valley’s Gift of Presence
I love my redwoods, and this is the time of year I tend to find myself walking among them, admiring their cathedral-like presence before returning upstream along the banks of the Russian to taste the spirit of locally-grown grapes.
(tags: wine redwoods forest russian river valley gary farrell wines winery […]