Reader Jim Sprague writes: Recently at a BevMo (Beverages & More) Saturday wine tasting, I was to taste four Chardonnays...
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A Napa Vintage Mae West Would Love . . .
Upon further review, I'm even more enamored of the big 2003 reds from the Napa Valley than I realized. Come to think of it, the...
Napa Valley’s Benchmark Sauvignon Blanc . . .
ST. HELENA, CA. -- Ordinarily a stop at Spottswoode would be all about the Cabernet Sauvignon. Cab is the money grape of the...
Spottswoode Cab, the Pichon-Lalande of Napa Valley
ST. HELENA, CA. -- Spottswoode winemaker Jennifer Williams posed an interesting question during my visit earlier this week. We...
Style Points for Elegance, Balance and Consistency
ST. HELENA, CA. -- Whatever else Cathy Corison may me, she is consistent. That much was evident on Monday as a small group of...
We Sometimes Wonder Why They Call It Service!
I fail to understand why simple wine service in many restaurants is so poor. I'm not talking Riedel versus other glasses -- I'm...
Wine Country Travel: Pawlcyn’s ‘Go Fish’ a New Find
ST. HELENA, CA. -- I rolled into St. Helena sometime close to 9 p.m. Sunday night and knew finding a restaurant open at that...
Click & Clack Take a Stab at Food & Wine
Wine reviews can make or break a winery, with many a winemaker struggling between a dislike for the power of the writer/reviewer...
WRO Archives, Your Very Own Wine Library
You may have noticed that many recent blog items have suddenly disappeared. Well, actually, they haven't. They've been archived....
Buy a Big Tattoo and Contribute to Breast Cancer Research!
There are a lot of worthy causes that need money to do their good works. Big Tattoo Wines offers wine lovers a unique...
November to Remember: 1.4 Million Hits, 77,768 Visitors!
Christmas came a month early here at Wine Review Online. We've just finished our best month ever, recording 1,457,002...
Season’s Greetings . . .
It's almost my favorite time of year again. Nope, not the holidays -- the competition season. More specifically, that would be...