This weekend's class was a blast! Of course when you're studying the wines of Napa Valley, it's hard to go wrong. We started in Carneros, the southern and most coolest part of the valley, and worked our way up through the heart of Napa (Rutherford, Oakville) and ended up in Zinfandel country (Calistoga), a bare ...read more →
Another really fun class with a great mix of students. We had six seniors form UW and four people who are about to make a bike trip to Spain. It made for great conversation with everyone adding something. We studied the crisp clean Albarino from "green" Spain, the fuller, richer Verdejo from Rueda, a Monastrell ...read more →
Saturday we studied the wines of Paso Robles. Paso is about halfway between San Francisco and LA. It is an up and coming region with over 200 wineries, up from only a few twenty years ago. What makes the area so exciting is its big swing between daytime and nighttime temperatures. This swing is the ...read more →
We had a really fun class last night on the wines of Portugal. As is usual, we had a nice mix of folks, and everyone added a great deal to the conversation. We were particularly lucky to have two ladies who had written a culinary guide to Portugal. Obviously, they brought a lot of knowledge we wouldn't have ...read more →
Bill Hill's Expression 38 Chardonnay 2013 Way back in 1993 I attended a wine education program given by a young, but already well-known wine educator, Kevin Zraly, from the world famous Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center. I enjoyed the program immensely, but admit to have been a ...read more →
