Chris Carpenter makes wine for Lokoya, Cardinale, Mt Brave and La Jota in Napa Valley. Here, he defines the wine term “Native Yeast)

In 2017 we attended our first Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Auction and this was a spectacular show. This event is for the trade and media in the wine industry and it was the third time it was held. Willamette Valley Winemakers gather to offer some of their finest Pinot Noir to auction while helping promote [...]

From our perspective, the smaller the winery the more interesting the wine. Barlow Vineyards is in Calistoga and Zach Smith is the Vineyard Manager as well as National Sales Manager. Barlow makes the kind of wines that they like to drink. And large production is not what they do. They focus on the wine, not [...]

For this Vino Lingo segment, Zach Smith of Barlow Vineyards in Napa Valley defines the wine term “Barrouge”

Back in October 2011 we interviewed a man who helped bring great change to Napa Valley. Volker Eisele worked to protect the Valley preventing unwanted development in the farming community. That was podcast #43 (October, 2011). It’s worth a listen today as well. But for this podcast we interviewed Molly Lyman who is the Winemaker [...]

Think you heard ’em all? Well here is Volker Eisele Family Estate Winemaker Molly Lyman defining the wine term “ASS-WIPE”

Pinot Noir certainly dominates the landscape in much of Sonoma especially since the movie Sideways was released years ago. Freeman Vineyard and Winery benefitted from the heavy press that Pinot received, but right along side that is Chardonnay. Ken Freeman and his winemaker wife Kiko have manged to create a winery making exceptional wines hidden [...]

Ken Freeman of Freeman Vineyard & Winery in Sonoma defines the term “Quaffable”

Exploring the nooks and crannies of wine country can be just as much fun as drinking the wine itself. Almost. You can spend days seeking out tiny mountain roads and lesser known AVA’s. Pope Valley is a hidden gem just to the east of Howell Mountain in Napa Valley. Worth the drive, Pope Valley is [...]

Thomas Wargovich, proprietor of Gratus Vineyards in Pope Valley give us his definition of the wine term “Saign´ee Method”