by Mike Dunne | Dec 22, 2022 | Blog
Two of the more intriguing and instructive wines I tasted during 2022 could serve as bookends for this year’s wine-competition circuit. The first was in January, at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in Cloverdale, Sonoma County. There, my assignment was to...
by Mike Dunne | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog
Notes from Dan Berger’s International Wine Competition at Santa Rosa last week: Sonoma County winemaker Carol Shelton’s standing as one of California’s more reliable hands with Zinfandel was enhanced as her voluptuous, complex and spicy Wild Thing 2020 Mendocino...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
Rather than make a wine and then fish for foods with which to pair it, why not style a wine to accompany a specific type of food? Chaim Gur-Arieh has done just that. His questing, inventive and original mind has created a series of wines carefully conceived to...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 26, 2022 | Blog
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition – Rodeo Uncorked! in cowboy shorthand – has two up-front goals: To showcase Texas wine and to showcase wines from the rest of the world, which is almost as big as Texas itself. Actually,...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 9, 2022 | Blog
Rodeo Uncorked!, the international wine competition of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, gets under way Friday. This will be the 20th roundup. I haven’t kept track of how many times I have judged at Houston, but show organizers say this is my 18th rodeo.A...
