David and Ginny Adelsheim are true Oregon wine pioneers. Not the very first to grow wine grapes, but among the first. honestly do not remember how I knew to visit Adelsheim when BrooklynLady and I toured Willamette wine country in the unusually sunny and warm first week of January, 2005. Yup, basically 2 years ago on the button. MORE >>

missed Wine Blogging Wednesday this month, silly me, and the theme was French Cabernet Franc. Many people reviewed wines by Fabrice Gasnier , a producer I am not familiar with. Good ol' David McDuff changed that right quick with an excellent three part profile of the estate and the wines. And the ripeness really shows. MORE >>

There is so much great wine out there waiting to be tasted! recently had two wines, both excellent, a Vouvray and a Chinon, made by a couple of producers whose wines I had never before tasted. And I have tasted so little of it. need to make another trip out there. Turns out, this is one of them. MORE >>

I want to follow up on the Real Wine Attack tasting with a few thoughts and a couple more tasting notes, but this time from home, wine with dinner. Domaine du Closel makes some of my favorite wines, not just white wines, or Loire Valley wines, but some of my favorites, period. MORE >>

They arrive at the winery in a healthier state so they can easily be sorted and the process of making wine can begin. This probably explains why most wine is made from grapes that are harvested by machines. If that were to happen we could taste the wines and compare their quality. don't know. Thoughts? MORE >>