Updates from The Greats – Donelan Family Wines

  If you have plans for being in the Sonoma area in early August, add this event to your itinerary, NOW. For ME, when it comes to selecting the top 5 or so greatest experiences my palate has enjoyed, considering wines from America, there will simply not be a better offer to come our way [...]

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DONELAN FAMILY WINES – CHATEAUNEUF AND HERMITAGE FROM AMERICAN LEGENDS

  If price alone predicates your daily “quaffer” selections, vinously speaking, then perhaps this collection will fall somewhere outside your comfort zone. But for ME, when it comes to selecting the top 5 or so greatest experiences my palate has enjoyed, considering wines from America, there will simply not be a better offer to come [...]

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Lost Canyon, Widdoes, and the Dutton Ranch Connection

One taste, I was absolutely hooked!  Then I began to hear the story, the tale of the connection, the reason this wine stayed with me for so many hours.  Take a moment, if you can spare the time. Because the folks behind the label, the gentle farmers tending the grapes, they are the real story, [...]

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Enkidu – Russian River Meets Ampuis

So I found myself at the conclusion of a highly satisfying wine tasting last week, the final wine at which was a staggering St.-Joseph from the estate of Cuilleron in the Northern Rhone. The guests at my event and I had thoroughly enjoyed ourselves during our intimate gathering together at Bistro des Amis and I [...]

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Scherrer Vineyards – Mr. Massie Goes to California

(taken from my first report on these wines; a report that introduced these fantastic wines to our portfolio…these Pinots remain a part of our selections to this day…)         While my recent discoveries had nothing to do with politics or a 1939 movie, I take some solace in the fact that not every voyage yields the [...]

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