Jay Jacobs took my NYU class this past semester. He’s getting into wine and is a techie so he was interested in the latest wine apps. He ended up downloading a few–including one in beta–and...
John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar, weighs in today with his thoughts on Mayacamas Vineyards. There is some duplication with Evan Dawson’s travel post from yesterday b...
https://www.drvino.com/2010/01/28/mayacamas-vineyards-cabernet-tasting-notes-john-gilman/
Evan Dawson, who writes about Finger Lakes wines for the New York Cork Report (and who we last saw here), recently tweeted that he was in Napa. I asked him if he wanted to contribute a post from ...
https://www.drvino.com/2010/01/27/visiting-mayacamas-vineyards-napa-valley/
This postcard from India is by Dini Rao, formerly in the wine department at Christie’s, and currently finishing her MBA at Harvard Business School. My wine experience during my stay in India wa...
Are Gen Y wine shops all they’re cracked up to be? Since I’m Gen X (and a wine geek) I had to find a Gen Y person, relatively new to wine to tell me. I posted about this mission and from the ...
https://www.drvino.com/2007/04/04/guest-post-test-driving-gen-y-wine-shops/
On an October trip to Germany, I visited a number of supermarkets, and inevitably I found myself browsing the wine department. Out of chauvinist curiosity — or perhaps Schadenfreude — I alway...
https://www.drvino.com/2006/11/28/gallo-invents-valleys-defines-state/
By Judith Hausman After a blind tasting or a big party, every host has wondered what to do with those bottle ends. If you are as frugal as I am, you just can’t bring yourself pour out that...
Mark Ashley, who has served as our Senior Free Wine Correspondent, will be guest blogging for a few days while I am offline. Mark is a consumer advocate, lover of value vino, and travel hound who...
Long Island wines may be America’s best kept wine secret. Or they might be America’s most overrated and overpriced regional wine east of the Rockies. This fall, you can decide for yourself ei...
Although the wines are good, Seattle is not the next Napa Valley. By Mark Ashley With the increasing popularity and quality of wines from Washington, interest in wine tourism in the region has be...
https://www.drvino.com/2005/05/01/seattle-wines-without-vines/
Please note that this posting is from 2003. Almost all wineries in Napa now charge for tastings thus the information here is likely outdated; please verify before visting. By Mark Ashley, Senior ...
https://www.drvino.com/2003/07/26/free-wine-tastings-in-napa-valley/
By Ben Curtis For most people, Hungary probably doesn’t immediately spring to mind as a great wine-producing country. Yet Hungarian wines have a tradition that goes back at least to Roman ...
https://www.drvino.com/2003/02/01/not-all-hungarian-wines-are-rotten-just-the-great-ones/