Help Out With a Great Wine Story: Kids & Wine
Do you parents let your small children, say 4, 5, 6, 7-years old taste wine? Is it a proper, even healthy, thing to do? If you do, is there a fear in the back of your mind that the agents of the state will break down […]

History, it is said, teaches us that when times are hard, people don’t particularly choose to drink less. Often, we drink more. Factor in our desire to celebrate the good times with the alcoholic beverage of our choice, and it’s easy to see why beer, wine, and spirits appear recession-proof: there’s always a good market […]

This new year seems to be roaring out of the starting gate! With all that’s been going on in my life since the first of January, I’m finding myself hard-pressed to keep up with the blogging here on Winehiker Witiculture. California Wine Hikes, now in its third season, is booking tours at its fastest rate […]

I wrote last May about a moth that hitched a ride from Australia and subsequently threatened a whole slough of California agricultural crops, including grapevines. As a result, state and federal authorities embarked on a Fall campaign of aerial pheromone spraying in a repeated attempt to thwart the spread of the light brown apple moth.

The larvae of the Light […]

Recently Discover Networks contacted me to let me know that my merchant account could now accept the Discover/Novus Card. That was mighty nice of them! Up until now, the californiawinehikes.com shopping cart accepted only MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal.

To allow my customers to use their Discover cards to book a California Wine Hikes tour, all I […]

I learned the other day that my January 8th presentation at Cinnabar Winery’s downtown Saratoga tasting room has been rescheduled. (See my earlier post, The Winehiker Live! at Cinnabar Winery’s tasting room.) 
Judging by the correspondence that I regularly receive here at Winehiker Central, the concept of winehiking enjoys broad appeal, so it’s quite possible that the […]

 
Outdoor exercise, good food and wine, and the camaraderie of friends new and old make a California Wine Hikes adventure the extra-special vacation that it is. How do I know? Many good miles, my friend, many great wines, and many satisfied smiles. That’s what’s in store for you on our York Mountain & Edna Valley Hiker’s […]

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Earlier today, while working on my upcoming presentation, I kept a running tab on my internationally-scattered group of Twitter friends, one of whom, Carol Bancroft of Pour More, realized she hadn’t updated her blogroll* to include a number of her wine-blogging Twitter friends. She offered to add whomever she had heretofore omitted to her […]