The first, which I don't want to get too deeply into is how they handled a "taste".  Before purchasing a bottle I like to taste what I am considering buying.  Problem is that they insisted on charging me the "tasting fee" to try the wine that I intended to purchase.  Something I think is OK at wineries but tacky in a wine bar. MORE >>

Not being a wine connoisseur, I love it when I open a new wine and just fall in love with what I found or what, in this case, was sent to me for tasting. Recently I received a few samples from Cinnabar Winery in the Paso Robles region of California. Tasted some elderberry and currant with dark berries. MORE >>

Think my taste buds are back. No matter what was tried I was getting a very musty taste. Bogle Winery 2007. I've been having a few problems with red wines since finishing some prescribed meds a few weeks ago. BTW, they are Zinfandel, Syrah, Pitite Sirah and Carmenere. The aroma was not what I expected of this dark garnet wine. MORE >>

passed over many of my favorites before keeping out a Billsboro Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2008. Billsboro Winery was opened as Geneva's first winery in the spring of 2000 by Bob Pool and Jennifer Morris and is home to 26 acres of rolling hills, vineyards and forest. That happened this week. But, there are many differences. MORE >>

have already tasted two of the Octavin Home Wine Bar artisan white wines and did review the Sauvignon Blanc from that collection and was looking forward to trying the Zin, but not necessarily writing a review. I've been holding out on the wine reviews until everything gets back to normal after my surgery. Best of all is the price. MORE >>