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A Gift from Jack Frost: Ice Wine

Category: Informational Author: Marian Jansen op de Haar

As the cold winter months arrive, so does one of the wine world's best-kept secrets: ice wine. Truly Jack Frost's gift to the wine lover, ice wines are dessert wines made from frozen grapes. The water inside these frosty berries has crystallized leaving a juice highly concentrated with sugars, acid and extracts. The result is wine with intensified ...

Interview with Big White House Winemaker John Evan Marion

Category: InformationalAuthor: Ryan O'Donnell

Livermore Valley's young winemaker is calling the shots at the ultra premium winery of Big White House and is now concocting cult wines under a new label. John Marion is a busy guy to say the least. For the past two-thirds of his life, John has been making wine. It's been part of his family for ...

La Luna Friday's at Murrieta's Well in Livermore Valley

Category: Wine EventsAuthor: Ryan O'Donnell

I haven't found a better wine event in the Livermore Valley to welcome the weekend then Murrieta's Well La Luna Fridays. The jist is simple: $50 gets you all you can drink, all you can eat, live music and a fabulous setting in wine country... that's if you can get in because they limit the number ...

Discovering Healdsburg

Category: Tasting Wine CountryAuthor: Ryan ODonnell

When one lives so close to fantastic sites and places, it’s easy to brush off the idea push plans to "maybe next weekend". Living in the San Francisco Bay Area has many perks and being overwhelmed by choice is easy.Healdsburg in Sonoma is a quaint town 2 hours drive from San Francisco. Healdsbur ...

Those '70s Guys - California's Most Influential Winemaking Generation

Category: InformationalAuthor: Lyn Farmer

The face of American wine is ever changing - though perhaps not as quixotically as the prices. But it only takes a drive through Napa Valley, congested with grapes, or through the agricultural bounty of Sonoma, or the flourishing Central Coast to understand that the California wine business is boomi ...