California’s Lake County built its reputation for fine wine with zesty Sauvignon Blancs and chiseled Cabernet Sauvignons. That standing was affirmed earlier this month when the Lake County Fair introduced its Blue Ribbon Wine Competition, the first comprehensive...

  Just as the harvest of vintage 2024 gets under way in California, Amador County's wine community is being jolted by news that Trinchero Family Estates is closing and putting on the market its Shenandoah Valley winery Terra d'Oro. While Terra d'Oro and its...

  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,...

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,...

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...

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,...