There is a distinct warming in the air. Leaves are beginning to sprout and over-enthusiastic daffodils are peeking out their petals to take Mother Nature’s temperature. But in our household, there is a different portent that heralds the arrival upcoming arrival of the vernal equinox; wine samples. A lot of wine samples.
Davis Bynum first flirted with winemaking at home in Berkeley when he was a young reporter working at the San Francisco Chronicle. It was 1951 and he purchased a small amount of petite sirah from Robert Mondavi. Things became a bit more serious in 1965 when he transformed a warehouse in Albany into a small winery, where he made wine using knowledge gained from the extensive library at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1973, Bynum found an 84-acre piece of land that eventually became Davis Bynum Winery.
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When you see or hear the word Mondavi, most wine consumers think of Robert Mondavi, the legendary wine visionary whose death at the age of 94 heralded the end of a remarkable era in the California wine industry. But the Mondavi name reached far deeper into the fabric of Napa Valley than the aforementioned luminary, thanks to his brother Peter Mondavi, Sr. who passed away last Saturday at his home in St. Helena, on the property of his Charles Krug Winery. He was 101.
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Looking for a wine with a storied history, delicious to drink and inexpensive to try? Well, consider trying something from the east… as in Eastern Europe.
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Valentine’s Day is looming large on the love horizon and by now, many of you have either made reservations at a favorite restaurant, bought chocolate or ordered flowers. Maybe you even did all three. After all, romance is what the day is all about and you can never do too much wooing.
The game of champions is upon us this weekend, and since I do not have a proverbial dog (or Colt or Panther) in the upcoming football fight, I have been trying to find a theme to rally around. And then I heard a story on CBS news.
Last Week’s Snowstorm gave a new meaning to the old adage, “Any Port in a storm.” Well, not exactly a port of call. More like a Port wine.
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Jay Turnipseed is a man with two mistresses. Fortunately, they both seem to get along! Even more fortunately, they are two of the most popular wineries in Napa Valley; Franciscan Estate and Mount Veeder Winery, and luckily for Jay, their winemaker, the two properties have a lot in common.
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The leaves are completely striped off of the trees and the outside temperature is falling faster than a soccer player faking an injury. The nip in the air signals that it’s time to break out the wool sweaters and big red wines. So when it’s this chilly outside, it’s time to start thinking about warming up with some Chile inside. Wines from Chile, that is.
Where did 2015 year go? Somehow, in the last twelve months, I have managed to gain weight, lose hair, pay tuition (times three), win dares, lose bets, find peace and lose my mind. All of this while tasting over a thousand samples of wine. Some good. Some not so good. But every wine that I tasted provided a frame of reference for other wines and expanded my proverbial thirst for knowledge.
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