A Lodi Wine & Chocolate Weekend one couple will never forget…
Some 5,000 Lodi wine lovers flocked to Lodi Wine Country during this past February 9-10’s Lodi Wine & Chocolate Weekend. Among those thousands was Carrie Fleming of Stockton, who was enjoying her...
View ArticleEstate Crush’s gold medal winning wines signal shift towards restrained wines
Getting a gold medal at each January’s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition is a big deal because it has been involving over 5,500 wines submitted from more than 25 states; making this easily the...
View ArticleLodi icon leaves legacy of uncompromised quality & character
Hundreds of related family, friends and colleagues gathered at Vinewood Community Church and Harney Lane Winery today to remember and celebrate the life of George Mettler (born March 14, 1943), who...
View ArticleNeyers Vista Luna Zinfandel perfectly suits contemporary tastes
When certain vintners speak, many others are listening. Bruce Neyers, who has owned the acclaimed Napa Valley based Neyers Vineyards (tucked into Conn Valley, in the eastern mountains surrounding the...
View ArticleNew York sommelier comes to Lodi (and Michael David’s latest Cinsault &...
A sommelier, according to standard dictionaries, is the person in a restaurant in charge of buying, storing and serving wines. You can say “wine steward,” which sounds pedestrian. And so people...
View ArticleNew lady in the house: Sorelle’s Russo Red
Sorelle Winery – a boutique sized vineyard and winery recently established by the Scott family at the southern edge of the Lodi AVA – is poised to release a rare Lodi grown Super Tuscan style red wine:...
View ArticleThe Grape Goddess® to speak at 2013 ZinFest
Not only is the annual ZinFest Wine Festival the perfect opportunity to taste the finest wines produced by over 50 Lodi wineries, but it’s also a great place to learn from the best. At this year’s...
View ArticleChillable Lodi wines for early Spring refreshment
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period — When March is scarcely here - Emily Dickinson Dickinson, like most of us, always felt a little divine power, and a little bit of...
View ArticleCritics take notice of Zinfandel’s “coming of age”
Up until only recently, according to wine journalist Rod Byers CWE, Zinfandel has been presented as “the Oakland Raiders of wine… loud, proud, unruly, and unapologetic.” But at this past January’s ZAP...
View ArticleThe ZinFest Cooking School + Chef Ruben’s lamb cutlets & saffron allioli
Where there is great wine, there is intense appreciation of the culinary arts; especially at the annual ZinFest Wine Festival, where you will be able to experience the finest wines produced by over 50...
View ArticleApril events in Lodi – the finest time of the season
“April is the cruellest month,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote. True, for many of us the middle of April can be cruel, as in “taxing.” Otherwise, what can be wrong about days that are not too warm and not...
View ArticleAcquiesce Vineyards leads the way, bolstering Lodi’s white wine image
Sometimes it’s detrimental – because nobody knows you – but sometimes it pays to be a “one and only.” Talking about the Grand Tasting at the 16 Annual Rhone Rangers Celebration that took place this...
View ArticleLodi icon leaves legacy of uncompromised quality & character
Hundreds of related family, friends and colleagues gathered at Vinewood Community Church and Harney Lane Winery today to remember and celebrate the life of George Mettler (born March 14, 1943), who...
View ArticleNeyers Vista Luna Zinfandel perfectly suits contemporary tastes
When certain vintners speak, many others are listening. Bruce Neyers, who has owned the acclaimed Napa Valley based Neyers Vineyards (tucked into Conn Valley, in the eastern mountains surrounding the...
View ArticleNew York sommelier comes to Lodi (and Michael David’s latest Cinsault &...
A sommelier, according to standard dictionaries, is the person in a restaurant in charge of buying, storing and serving wines. You can say “wine steward,” which sounds pedestrian. And so people...
View ArticleNew lady in the house: Sorelle’s Russo Red
Sorelle Winery – a boutique sized vineyard and winery recently established by the Scott family at the southern edge of the Lodi AVA – is poised to release a rare Lodi grown Super Tuscan style red wine:...
View ArticleThe Grape Goddess® to speak at 2013 ZinFest
Not only is the annual ZinFest Wine Festival the perfect opportunity to taste the finest wines produced by over 50 Lodi wineries, but it’s also a great place to learn from the best. At this year’s...
View ArticleLodi vintners capture elusive joys of Tempranillo
Are there wines capable of as much inexpressible intensity as those made from the black skinned Tempranillo grape? Even wine geeks have difficulty putting a finger on exactly what makes a great...
View ArticleBorra’s amazing Spring releases: the moonshine is the sunshine
It is so ironic: that many contemporary American winemakers, who by resorting to Old World methodologies, are now considered to be the most daring winemakers of today. The new style is the old style;...
View ArticleWatts ups the ante with pure Chardonnays, a classic Zinfandel & adventurous...
Quietly, pretty much under the radar, Watts Winery & Vineyards has been growing before our eyes. From 1999 to 2011, Watts was one of many winemaking tenets in Vino Piazza, near the little Lodi CDP...
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