The wine world is a competitive space and sometimes what you think might be a formula for success isn’t. However, sometimes all it takes is a new team running the show to kick in winery into high-gear. In the ultra-competitive California wine world wineries are changing hands quite a bit and there are three notable […]
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Global Warming Could Wipe-Out 50% of California’s Grapes by 2040
Researchers at Stanford University believe that by 2040 global warming will have damaged the land so badly that 50% of California’s premier wine region will have land unsuitable for growing grapes. Surprisingly the impact in Oregon and Washington is the exact opposite as both states will potentially get more high-quality land suitable for growing grapes. […]
Paso Robles Gets Frostbitten
April is supposed to be a sunny and beautiful time in California where grape vines can grow and thrive…unfortunately this year that wasn’t quite the case. Starting on April 8th and continuing for two days the temperature in Paso Robles dropped below freezing badly damaging grape vines across the region. Wine Spectator quoted Gary Eberle […]
Red Wine Health Benefits May Be Overstated – But We Still Love It!
Red Wine has been touted as the wonder-drink for years, an alcoholic drink that will reverse the aging process, improve your heart, and the list goes on. Now a study from the University of Florida is suggesting that red wine benefits might just be a tad bit, well, exaggerated. Now, don’t fear fellow red wine […]
A Rainy Spring in California Puts Wineries in a Tough Spot
California had an unusually rainy spring hitting grape vines at a critical time in their growth process. It is believed that growers in Northern California lost 10-15% of their crop in the torrential downpours that plagued California earlier this year. Rain earlier in the season is less damaging than later-on when the flowers are blooming, […]
Tasting Great Malibu Wine at LearnAboutWine.com’s Big BU – Part 2
Last weekend we tasted some excellent wine from Malibu and LearnAboutWine.com’s Big BU event in Santa Monica. Since we did a lot of tasting and met a ton of really great people it was impossible to condense it all into one post so we’re doing a three-part series to cover the event. If you didn’t […]
Charles Shaw Wins Wine Spectator’s Wine of the Century
In a press release today Wine Spectator declared Charles Shaw the winner of their coveted “Wine of the Century” award. This is given-out only once every one-hundred years to a wine that is truly the best of the best. The award was given-out for the first time back in 1511 and over the last five-hundred […]