My buddy Vindu yesterday passed along this video tidbit from the Wall Street Journal Online:
Over the past 13 years, mealybugs have spread north from Southern California into the Napa-Sonoma wine country, forcing vintners to spend as much as $30 million a year trying to eradicate them. But the bugs are notoriously difficult to pin down; […]

 
Last Saturday found me and my tour guests communing with ancient redwoods at Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve, just outside of the tiny Sonoma County hamlet of Guerneville along the fabled Russian River. I love my redwoods, and this is the time of year I tend to find myself walking among them, admiring their stately, jaw-dropping, cathedral-like […]

Tasting rooms seem to have come and gone over the years in Saratoga. That’s why I’m hoping Cinnabar Vineyards & Winery will make a good go of it for many years in their new location at 14612 Big Basin Way between 5th and 6th Streets in downtown Saratoga, commonly referred to by locals as The […]

Photo courtesy of BobBarclay.com
Every so often somebody will ask me how I entered the world of wine. I’ve always replied that I once roomed with a couple of guys back in the 80’s, one of whom, unlike me, had grown up in a wine family. By the time I had met him in our mid-twenties, […]

Wine, too, for the next generation
Its not hard to guess the main reason why wine and wine-related information have become more widely available than ever. Fermented juice from my experience at last Friday’s Wine 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
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There are reasons why wine has become more widely available than ever. Eric Asimov of The New York Times’ The Pour is right when he says:
From the chateaux of Bordeaux to the hillside hamlets of Valle d’Aosta, from windswept volcanic rocks of Santorini to foggy ridges of the Sonoma Coast, wine from anywhere can be […]

Europe officially recognizes Napa
From decanter.com: The European Union has officially recognised California’s Napa Valley in a new ruling announced in San Francisco last week.
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Today’s Bordeaux: Top 100 Bordeaux
100 wines priced $8-$25 selected by an independent jury in a blind tasting of over 300 wines.
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Sense-Enhancing Wine Glass
This 16 oz. Burgundy size wine glass has a notch forged into its rim that accommodates your nose, allowing you to fully experience the […]

I met a few of my future heroes Friday night. As you may recall from Friday’s post, I took the train up the San Francisco Bay peninsula to attend the second annual Wine 2.0 San Francisco wine and technology conference hosted at Club Sportiva and an adjacent business in the same building, On The Fly. […]

 
The one-winery-a-day guys at RadCru and the direct-to-consumer technology folks at Inertia Beverage are hosting the second annual Wine 2.0 event in San Francisco this afternoon at five o’clock. Here’s what they have to say about the looming juggernaut that is Wine 2.0: 
Wine 2.0 is a wine industry networking group featuring the newest generation of emerging companies, […]