Many longtime Dedalus fans are, by now, also fans of Bruce Neyers and his wines. Vintage after vintage, the bottlings from Bruce’s Conn Valley Ranch in the heart of the Napa Valley, are a testament to what many of us consider Napa’s real potential. These wines aren’t fruit monsters. They don’t blow your face off [...read more]

The Craft of Food & Wine – A Dinner Featuring the wines of Robert Sinskey Vineyards with guest speaker: Mark Neville “the only way to truly be good at the craft  of winemaking is to know your materials…” Jeff Virnig – Winemaker, Robert Sinskey Vineyards From vine to bottle, these wines are the embodiment of [...read more]

2007 Turley Juvenile.  Let’s start at the back.  “Juvenile” refers to the age of the Zinfandel vines — for this wine, 25 years or younger.  Turley is a Zinfandel specialist, gathering old vine grapes planted  in California before Prohibition.   “Juvenile” is made from the occasional replacements since even the life of a vine is not [...read more]

You’re going to love pouring these wines for your friends. Especially if you do any entertaining and extra-especially if you’re into grilling and relaxing outside. What could be better than having your own little selection of delicious, crowd pleasing wines? Well, knowing that everybody who gets a glass of them will be in awe of [...read more]

Sunday, June 14th from 3:00 – 4:30 $35/Person This event is Sold Out.  Call or email the shop to be added to our waiting list.  We will be releasing another class series soon. [...read more]

Let’s consider the Petite Sirah grape. Despite failing in its birthplace, this resourceful immigrant has flourished in the New Worlds of California and Australia. Petite Sirah first appeared in France around 1870 when the botanist François Durif caught sight of it in someone’s vineyard and named it after himself. Durif remains another name for this [...read more]

How does a grape strangle a dog? That question comes from discovering that one of the names for Mourvedre is `estrangle-chien’ (others are monastell and Balzac). Whatever the case, we drink it much more than we realize, in Châteauneuf-du-Pape for instance, where it blends well with Grenache. Look out too for Australian blends of Shiraz and [...read more]

There’s quite a bit of Cabernet Sauvignon being bottled in California’s Napa Valley. Driven by the success of cult bottlings like Screaming Eagle and Harlan, the only thing growing faster than the region’s renown might be the prices Napa Cabs are fetching around the world. These increase are not necessarily marked by an astronomical increase [...read more]