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Here we continue with our report on the recent trip to Slovenia and the Vinska Klet Goriška Brda Winery. Good things just kept happening. Sunday, or day three, was all about history, and this region has plenty of it. WWI brought long, bitter and fierce fighting to this region, as the mountains were won and Continue reading Trip to Goriška Brda, Slovenia Part 2: History, Nature, the Capital and a Little More Grappa Please follow and like us:   
 
This is a review of a recent trip to the Goriška Brda area of Slovenia, and in particular the Vinska Klet Goriška Brda Winery, who hosted eight representatives from their U.S. distributors as well as myself. Slovenia was an unknown to me and almost everyone I talked to beforehand. Most A beautiful place! Continue reading Trip to Goriška Brda, Slovenia Part 1: Wine, Food, Great People and a little Grappa Please follow and like us:
I recently had the good fortune to tag along on a distributor trip to the Vinska Klet Goriska Brda winery in the Brda region of Slovenia, just over the eastern Italian border. This is a beautiful wine country of hills, valleys and terraced vineyards, reminding me in some spots of the hills of Barolo and Continue reading A Bottle to Remember . . . Forever! Please follow and like us:
I’ll be off to the Brda region of Slovenia soon to tour the vineyards and the local wine cooperative, as well as sample lots of their wines. Who knows, might even get a bit of sight seeing in as well. Just over the northeastern Italian border, the Brda region is comprised of rolling hills with Continue reading Off to Brda, Slovenia Soon and Slovenian Wine! Please follow and like us:
We keep trying more of our stash of 2005 Bordeaux, and across the board these wines are showing extremely well right now. Here’s another one to look for, and it is still affordable. This really was a great vintage. Wine: 2005 Cap de Faugeres Winery Location: Cotes de Castillon, Bordeaux Tasted By: Neil & Continue reading 2005 Bordeaux Continues to Shine Please follow and like us:
At an event as big as the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival you can’t see and try everything in one Grand Tasting afternoon. We’ll be there for both Grand Tastings, get in early for the press and media hour, and we still won’t see it all….and there’s two of us. So what do you Continue reading Wines to Look For at the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival Please follow and like us:
We’ll continue our look at some smaller producers in Napa and Sonoma with another mountain winery, La Jota Vineyard Company. We previously wrote about Mt. Brave, which you can read about by clicking here, and there are many parallels between the two, including Napa Valley mountain sites and sharing the same vineyard manager and winemaker, Continue reading La Jota Vineyard Company – Mountain Wine Making in Napa Valley Please follow and like us:
You’ve probably heard of Grgich Hills Estate. It’s a fairly iconic Napa Valley winery headed by a very iconic winemaker, Miljenko “Mike” Grgich. Mike was born in Croatia and started his enological studies there, but fled the Communist regime and found his way to the U.S. He arrived in 1958 and proceeded to work with Continue reading Grgich Hills Wine Tasting – August, 2015 Please follow and like us:
September is fast approaching, and that means wine and food festivals. We’ve been previewing the Newport Mansions event, but let’s not forget about the Greenwich Wine and Food Festival, which happens in Greenwich, CT in late September. This is really more of a food event than a wine one, but there are plenty of wines Continue reading Preview of the Greenwich Wine and Food festival, Sept 23-26 Please follow and like us:
Chateau Ste. Michelle is a very dependable producer, and their Indian Wells line offers rich, robust reds (along with a Charonnay) which deliver a lot of body, color and depth. The wines are from warm weather vineyards east of the mountains in Washington. Here is one we recently ordered by the glass at lunch in Continue reading Good Value Merlot from Chateau Ste. Michelle Please follow and like us:
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