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With Thanksgiving a little more than a week away, it's time to get the wine and food in order. We'll help you get started with our list of recommended reds, a roast turkey recipe to make a great match with your wine.
Thanksgiving dinner means a cacophony of sweet, herbal and savory flavors on the table with a roast turkey in the center, which calls for younger, fruit-forward wines with enough body to stand up to many if not all of your holiday favorites. This being an American holiday, we've pro… Continue

There are a couple of basics when it comes to storing wine bottles. Wine has some natural enemies when it comes to storage. They are light, temperature and humidity.

Too much light damages wine, high temperatures will destroy a wine and not enough humidity will dry out the cork and cause oxygenation of the wine resulting in a corked wine or even worse, vinegar.

This is why dark, cool and relatively moist areas are the best environments for wine storage. Last but not least, wines need to lie on… Continue

Vintage| Napa Rating|Sonoma Rating| Drink Rec |Description|
2008 90-92 84-86 NYR Small crop, with uneven ripening; but could be unique for its depth and concentration

2007 94-97 87-88 NYR Early signs point to a great year of ripe and supple yet rich and concentrated wines. Growing conditions were mild and even, with a good crop size

2006 95 86 Drink or hold A late, cool harvest produced dense, concentrated, structured and ageworthy wines

2005 92 85 Drink or hold Record-size crop surpas… Continue

What is Halloween? Is it worshipping demons? Is it spirits walking the earth?

The word "Halloween" is derived from a few things; All Saints Day (1st November), Eve of All Hallows (All Hallows Eve) or Hallow Even.

The celebration of Halloween was originally the New… Continue

Give it time to breathe

Sometimes a wine may smell funny even though your glasses are spotless. There are several reasons for this beyond the obvious, that the wine is not to your liking.

Often older wines can have a bit of “bottle stink” apon opening. This is easily remedied by allowing the wine to breath either in your glass or in a decanter. I have found that almost all wines, young and old, inexpensive, and not so inexpensive tend to improve with some exposure to oxygen. This… Continue