In the Finger Lakes region it is very scarce, only two wineries grow Dornfelder and Fulkerson Winery is the only varietal wine producer. purchased the Dornfelder at the Fulkerson Winery while on the Deck the Halls tour last week. This has been one fantastic year of enlightenment for me when it comes to all things wine. MORE >>

Bogle Winery 2007. Think my taste buds are back. I've been having a few problems with red wines since finishing some prescribed meds a few weeks ago. No matter what was tried I was getting a very musty taste. opened a few old reliables thinking there must have been some bad bottles in the rack, but they turned out to be the same. MORE >>

Today – outside of large-scale commercial wineries, this is changing slowly due to the ‘natural wine’ movement. Joly made a name for himself in the 80’s by returning to his family’s winery after working a banker, and being one of the first to embrace biodynamics (winemakers treating the farm as a cohesive, interconnected living system). MORE >>

Very interesting meeting today with the publishers of Vineyard & Winery Management , Dennis Black and Bill Traverso who also run wine competitions. The gentlemen are in the process of organizing some new wine competitions, one of which is titled "2011 Nextgen Wine Competition " to be judged entirely by millennials. MORE >>

Recently I emarked on a four day trip (four days meeting with producers to discover the styles of wine they were making, check out the quality, and see the different wineries). Increasingly, many producers are going biodynamic, organic, or at the very least are using natural yeast. and the restaurants in these wineries are incredible! MORE >>