The notion that Chateau Bellefont-Belcier 1998 (a combination of Merlot and Cabernet Franc from Bordeaux’s “right bank” region of St. Emilion) was produced in the same year that I graduated from college made me feel a bit like I was opening a time-capsule when I popped the cork…. not to mention, old.  But anyway, the […]

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See below for the events that we recommend for this weekend and beyond.  Click on its title to visit the official web site.

California

Sonoma

Sonoma Wine Country Weekend: August 29 - 31.  Sonoma food and wine… all weekend long.  If you have a Visa Signature card, you get a big break on the ticket price.  By the way, this time […]

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Every once in a while, the bottle that we’ve selected as our Weekday Wine doesn’t live up to our expectations, and that was the case for the wine that we were hoping to write about today.  Fortunately, it’s rare, but it happens!
Tonight’s poor performer was a Chardonnay from Northern California’s Carneros region.  The wine had a beautiful straw color and […]

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Shortly after we moved out west from New York City, a dear college friend, who had been living in San Francisco for several years, organized, through Segway Tours of Sonoma, an intimate group tour of the lovely Sonoma Valley one sunny weekend morning.
After a brief introductory video and an instructional lesson (included within the ticket […]

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