With the eminent release of Star Trek: Picard Season 3, I’m back to review the latest Chateau Picard wine just in time for the new season. Season 3, which Paramount has said will be the final season, moves away from the plots of the past two…
Many celebrities live lifestyles that can only be dreamed of by most people and are worshiped by fans that become starstruck upon meeting them. Yet the truth is that celebrities are truly “just like the rest of us” wine lovers and dream of making their own…
Before you read my article, please understand that I am NOT a financial advisor and you should in no way take anything I say as financial advice… I remember the early days of working at a booth inside a Sam’s Club for my local dial-up Internet…
Just in time for April 20th AKA 4/20 comes a long awaited Cannabis-infused wine follow up article. It has been over a year since I first planned to write this, but mostly due to the pandemic it just wasn’t possible until now. If you don’t remember…
This 1934 Adega Viuva Gomes wine from Colares, Portugal got me back in the vintage wine tasting saddle this weekend. Colares is a small region and is well known for using the Ramisco grape. I found this wine to still be remarkably tannic which is something…
After about a year and a half, I decided to revisit cannabis infused wines and see how far along the industry has come since my very first video. Back in 2017, cannabis was becoming legal in more and more US states and a few wineries jumped…
Do you remember what the key factors were that made you fall in love with wine? Was it through visiting a winery or tasting a specific bottle? How about movies or television? It was actually a little of all of these for me, though I did…
It’s Labor Day Weekend and quite hot here in the Los Angeles area. I don’t often drink Rosé, but it’s definitely the perfect wine for a hot weekend while relaxing at home before the end of Summer. I’ve had several wines from China (including another from…
I love history and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy trying older vintages. They are like a time machine to a period of time long gone by. What was the world like when the grapes were growing? How about when the wine was being made?…
In the 1800s, wine in Southern California was a fast growing industry. From Santa Barbara to what is now downtown Los Angeles, much of the croplands were covered in grapes and lots of them were bound for wineries. Imported varietals were just as much of the…
