Intrinsic and Inferno: Steps Into The New Frontier of Wine

In June of 2014, about a month after this website was debuted, I posted something called “Winemakers In Bondage: Who Continue reading →

Albariñ? Yo!

Albariño…even as recently as ten years ago, I’d go to a dinner or picnic where I knew seafood or shellfish or Continue reading →

Are You OUT OF YOUR MIND?!?: The Pour Fool’s Scoring System Explained

Yesterday, I gave a couple of bottles of pink wine 95 points… Even the winemakers laughed. Lots of you did, Continue reading →

Renegade, Seven Hills, Ferrari, Ruffino, Galil, & More: Sweetheart Rosés

  In the past, when I was moved enough to write about rosé, I tried to do it in, like, April Continue reading →

Oregon Winemaker Pops Off, Fool Pops Cork

LONG, grumpy, provoked, probably provocative…My $.02 on the unending, stultifying, pointless debate on Burgundy versus California versus Oregon Pinot Noir, Continue reading →

Deschutes “Pinot Suave”: Game Changer

arc “Pinot“: (French) describing a family of wine grapes that are closely related genetically across both grape colors, red and Continue reading →

Holman Ranch “Virgin Chardonnay”: The Cure for Wood Addiction

  Let me make two fairly definitive statements, as I start this review of the 2013 Holman Ranch Estate Grown Continue reading →

Viognier In California? Zaca Mesa Says “YES!”

  I am an unabashed Viognier freak. Have been since I tasted my first glass of the hallmark white of Continue reading →