Our Minneapolis Rock the Wine could not have had more beautiful people.  The evidence can be found in the first group of pictures posted from the event.  If you don't find you...

... as genuine as they come. Keywords:quoin rock , Wine columns quoin rock , Wine columns ... Most wine producers toe the line. Inherently a conservative pastime, winemaking doesn’t court many ... combination of viognier with shiraz. Carl van der Merwe of Quoin Rock believes all of these need ... practise can make good wine. It can even make very good wine. But for Van der Merwe, it is not making...

But more later… Keywords:quoin rock , Wine talk quoin rock , Wine talk ... I’d like to explore some of the ideas and experiences that I had yesterday on a visit to the winery Quoin Rock in more detail later, but a few preliminary remarks since it was a stimulating day - in the sense that much is usually the same but with a different face in the winelands. The essential...

Sydney and I went on a nice little trip over to the Columbia Gorge yesterday. Despite some problems with closed roads, we saw a few of the falls and spent a few hours in Hood River. Photos are available for your viewing pleasure...

Spot the moose, win a prize. (taken 12-aug-06, Amethyst Lake trail, high Uintas, Ut.) [update ] All good guesses.  However, you have to look very close in order to see the moose.  Click here for a zoomed-in view of the mystery moose.  Perhaps then you will be able to spot ...

I probably won't update this too often, but I've posted a few wine-related photos over at Flickr. It's basically pictures from Disney's Napa Rose in California and the 2005 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. Enjoy...

Where's wino? No no, Beau over at Basic Juice isn't asking us to find him next Wednesday for WBW #26, that's just the name of this month's theme. He's shaken things up a little this time 'round ... game of "where's the wine from based on the tasting notes?" Learn more at Basic Juice ...and we hope you'll look for Wino next Wednesday...

Last weekend I judged the Riverside International Wine Competition.  I find the judging valuable ... not help sell wine like they did 20 years ago, but for two other things.    One: We judge (smell & taste, spitting out the wine the whole time) about 100 wines a day.  (A beer sure taste good ... craft.  I have been judging commercial wine competitions for over 25 years and do Riverside...

Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...