by Heather Lipp | Apr 14, 2018 | Bordeaux, Uncategorized
How much of a difference does the year the wine is harvested (i.e., the vintage) make in how much we like a wine? For Bordeaux, like many other wine regions, the vintage can make a huge difference. Doing a recent tasting at our house, we lined up four recent Bordeaux...
by Heather Lipp | Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
As of this writing, the fires in and around Napa and Sonoma are still raging strong. As a result of the fast moving fires due to dry conditions and strong winds, nearly 200,000 acres have been torched, entire neighborhoods have been burned to the ground and most...
by Heather Lipp | Aug 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
There are only so many blogs one can read on wine and cheese pairing, so we figured why not write a blog on pairing wine with the 2017 eclipse? Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, on Monday, August 21st will be the first total solar...
by Heather Lipp | Aug 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are lucky enough to have friends who are not only into wine and have incredible collections of wine we could never afford, but are also kind enough to open some of their prized bottles with us. One of our friends recently had a major birthday, and in celebration...
by Heather Lipp | Jun 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
We recently hosted a party with a few of our friends where we opened up the same wine, a decade apart, spanning four decades, to see how the wine ages and matures. The Wines Château Pape Clément from 1976, 1986, 1996, and 2006. Why Château Pape Clément? We decided...
