A Rolling Taste of a Sonoma Wine Icon

a busload of bloggers tasting Chateau St. Jean

This post follows my attendance at the 10th annual Wine Blogger’s Conference. Before the formal conference programming took place there were pre-excursions, and the one that I signed up for was led by Treasury Wine Estates to visit two of their wineries: Stags’ Leap and Etude. Chateau St. Jean was originally scheduled as part of… Continue reading →

Looking at California Wine Country After the Fires

November 14, 2017 Flames Among the Vines In October 2017, from out of nowhere it seemed, on the tail end of the grape harvest, real-time posts to social media illustrated a multiple-wildfire situation had erupted in Napa and Sonoma wine country. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes. Some of the area’s most storied… Continue reading →