The school of biodynamic winemaking preaches that the experience of a wine—the smell, the mouthfeel, the many ways a glass of wine engages the senses—will differ depending on how the stars in the sky are positioned on the day it is uncorked (although they are careful to avoid the hocus-pocus sounding term astrology in favor [...]

I love me an Alexander Valley Cab.  They vary, of course, but in general, AV Cabernets are swollen with flavor, loosely structured and bursting at the seams.  Like Alexander Valley itself, AV Cabs represent what Sonoma County is at its essence: vivacious, slightly hedonistic cowboy country where the senses matter more than pretenses and no [...]

Yesterday I had a hankering. Sitting in my room at home, I watched the mid-afternoon sunshine stream through open blinds over sliding glass doors, painting pinstripes of light on the walls all around me. Birds chirped excitedly in the backyard. Regardless of Saturday’s rain, Spring is in the air in Southern California, and I can [...]