by Mike Dunne | Jun 10, 2024 | Blog
We’ve been down this road before, the road about vineyards and wineries of Idaho. We didn’t find any potato wine then and we didn’t find any potato wine now. Potato vodka, sure, but no potato wine. Other novelties, yes, but no potato wine. Sorry. By and large,...
by Mike Dunne | May 27, 2024 | Blog
Alameda County Fair wine judge Barry Herbst of Bottle Barn at Santa Rosa. From pigs to pies, county fairs long have highlighted the intersection of industrious agriculture and individual creativity. Wine, with its roots in both farming and artistic expression,...
by Mike Dunne | May 9, 2024 | Blog
May is the month of transition, from the hearty red wines of winter to the breezy white wines of spring. That isn’t how things worked out this past first weekend of May, however, when the seventh Amador Four Fires Food & Wine Festival convened at Amador County...
by Mike Dunne | May 8, 2024 | Blog
Mysteriously, quietly, acai bowls are showing up on restaurant menus about Sacramento. But what’s acai, and why should diners care? Sacramentans will have an opportunity to learn all about acai and a whole lot of other dietary staples – coffee, cocoa, quinoa, corn,...
by Mike Dunne | Apr 30, 2024 | Blog
Highlights from a recent surge of commercial wine competitions: California State Fair Sauvignon Blanc is one of the few bright spots in the American wine market, with sales and plantings up compared with all other grapes and wines not named Cabernet Sauvignon or...
