The Ojai Vineyard

This past week I had the good luck to be able to attend a lunch tasting with Mr. & Mrs. Tolmach, long-time owners and proprietors of The Ojai Vineyard in Santa Barbara County. The Ojai Vineyard is a winery whose wines I have tasted on and off throughout the years but never really had the …

Bouchard Père et Fils Vintage 2014

If there is something I’ve come to realize these past few years, it’s that a wine fair is never just a wine fair. Off-wine fairs, producer meetings, private tastings, evening events… There are so many levels and facets of an important wine fair nowadays one might think one was at a good natured high school …

Knee-Deep in Burgundy

It’s the fourth day of the Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne tasting, and the sun is shining down on a bleak France that I’m sorry to say isn’t one bit warmer than when I visited in January. Fierce winds literally race the vineyards and visitors huddle close together for warmth as they wait for transportation …