by Mike Dunne | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog
For all you Californians moving to Texas and taking your buy-local consciousness with you: Yes, Texas has homegrown wine. Pinot Noir isn’t as big in Texas as peanuts and pecans, and cotton sits far higher than Cabernet Sauvignon on the list of the state’s more...
by Mike Dunne | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog
I’m a fan of wine competitions, for the most part. I have judged at hundreds over the years, and continue to be active on the competition circuit. Much of what I expect to write here will spring from what I find by sitting on a panel at a wine competition. The wines I...
by Mike Dunne | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog
This is my fiftieth year to write of wine, mostly California wine, and mostly wines from enclaves about the state capital, Sacramento, where my wife Martha and I have lived most of those 50 years. To mark that half century – and to give myself something to do during...