by Mike Dunne | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog
A quick jaunt to Calaveras County the other day paid off with introductions to several mighty-fine wines: The day began with the fifth-annual International Cabernet Franc Wine Competition inside the sprawling Golf Club at Copper Valley, a gated settlement just outside...
by Mike Dunne | Mar 26, 2024 | Blog
A fresh and lively discussion is under way on the California wine scene. It centers on Napa Valley, specifically on what its most prominent style of wine – Cabernet Sauvignon – represents: Place or personality? Karen MacNeil, one of the state’s more prolific,...
by Mike Dunne | Mar 6, 2024 | Blog
Four glasses of white wine were before me. I only was told that they were Chardonnay, one from each of four brands of Bogle Family Wine Collection, including their latest, Element[al]. I was asked to pick the Element[al], the first brand of wines in the country...
by Mike Dunne | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog
Ron Mansfield, who nearly 50 years ago saw on Apple Hill the potential for crops other than apples, died Sunday after a long siege with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 76. In 1980, he and his wife Carolyn founded Goldbud Farms in what is known as both...
by Mike Dunne | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog
Again, and again, the phrase popped up at the recent Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento: “Wine in moderation.” Never within my earshot, however, did anyone say what that means, or if “wine in moderation” were to materialize what it would mean for...
