I have been coming to Napa for years, not just because I love wine and the wine world, but because Cabernet happens to be my favorite varietal and, well, Napa takes the cake when it comes to Cabs. Of course, as a California wine fan I look past a lot of the hype associated with […]
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Exploring Texas Wine Country – Part 1: Becker Vineyards
For those who have been reading BlogAboutWine.com for years you know that we love exploring new wine regions. We’ve covered up and down the coast of California from Sonoma to Paso Robles, Napa to Santa Ynez. Now we find ourselves exploring one of the newest up and coming wine regions, and no it’s not California, […]
Our Napa Wine Tasting Itinerary For This Weekend
This weekend we are heading to Napa for a weekend of wine tasting. It happens to be Morgan’s 32nd Birthday and no surprises, he picked Napa as his destination of choice to celebrate. As usual we have planned ahead and booked some great tastings for the weekend and still have one or two more appointments […]
VinExpo Asia-Pacific Kicks Off In Hong Kong
It’s no secret that Asia has been become a larger player in the wine world and today their largest event gets underway in Hong Kong. This gives winemakers from around the world the chance to taste some of China’s best wines. In case you didn’t know, China is the largest consumer of spirits, consuming almost […]
Russian River Wine Tasting Tour – Part One: John Tyler Winery
Hello and welcome to part one of our Russian River Wine Tasting Tour! Our tour started at a winery that is now one of our personal favorites, John Tyler Winery. Pam and John Bacigalupi joined forces with Pam’s nephew Tyler Heck in 2002 to form John Tyler Wines, however the Bacigalupi family has been in the wine business […]
Wine Tasting In Big Bear? Le Dolce Vita Bring The Wineries To You
A couple of weeks ago we were in Big Bear and after a taking a nice kayaking tour around the lake I decided to do a quick Google search for something “wine” related. Of course, being on top of a mountain I was expecting to find maybe a wine store, possibly a restaurant with a […]
Photo Highlights From Our Sonoma Wine Tasting Adventures
We had an absolutely incredible time wine tasting in Sonoma this weekend. This week we are putting-together all of our tasting notes, photos, videos, and most importantly reviews of all the wineries we visited. These will be coming-out through a series of posts, but while we’re putting this together we thought it would be fun […]
Our Unofficial Sonoma Wine Tasting Itinerary
We are just days away from making our way up north and exploring what Sonoma’s diverse wine region. Initially we had planned on hitting some of the bigger, more well-known wineries but after getting some great advice from one of our readers we are now looking to take the road less traveled. While we might […]
Sonoma Wine Country Here We Come! Sonoma Wine Country 101
We have been wine tasting in Southern California for about four years now with an uncountable number of trips to Santa Barbara, Paso Robles, and Temecula. Of course as wine lovers we’ve also spent plenty of time in Napa but for some reason Sonoma is always left off the list. Well we’ve decided that it […]
Wine News Update For March 2nd 2012: Wine.com Hosts Industry Summit
Hello fellow wine lovers and welcome to another Wine News Update here on BlogAboutWine.com. Is it just us or did this week just fly by? 2012 is already shaping-up to be an exciting year in the wine world and as always, we’re excited to bring you the lates and greatest from the wine world, on […]