Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Locals: Great Wines Mean Good Times
I love the arrival of a new wine into the room and relish the opportunity to share it with customers, especially club members. So Fred Peterson arrives with a few new wines he’s just bottled and wants to share to see if we want them for the room. The first Mendo...Feb 23, 2014 | Blog, Locals: Great Wines Mean Good Times
Winter is upon us and Sonoma is experiencing one of the warmest and driest I can remember! The vineyards are sleeping, most are in the tender hands of pruners, getting the winter haircut in preparation for next spring. There is a tendency to romanticize grape...Feb 6, 2014 | Blog, Locals Tasting Room, Russian Hill Estate Winery, Syrah
Some things are worth waiting for! Just ask my pup Cooper as he patiently waits for me to throw the Frisbee as we walk the vineyard each morning. He never jumps or grabs just watches my every move and WAITS….. I was reminded of the rewards of waiting as I opened a...Jan 19, 2014 | Albarino, Blog, chicken
So this is the way it went down. I really love beer can chicken but like most good things I can’t leave it alone! I have to put my twist on it, have a fiddle if you will. In this case it was to empty the beer and add a cup of Struttin White Albarino, onion, garlic...Jan 8, 2014 | Blog, Pendleton Winery, recipe
Every year my husbands’ family traditionally finished off the ham from Christmas day with a sauerkraut potato salad, this has never been my favorite meal of our marriage, so this year we decided to do things a bit different. Thanks to our Bradley Smoker we had made...