Trends come, and trends go, but for as long as I’ve been into wine wine, I can remember seriously loving Ridge. It was a bottle of Santa Cruz Mountain Chardonnay that first got me hooked on Chardonnay as a varietal wine, and Paul Draper became the first winemaker I followed vintage after vintage. Here’s a [...read more]

Let there be light- KAPOW! And there was light, and it was good… The time has come – t-shirts, sunglasses, a smoking grill and a bunch of people getting happy outside, under blue skies. This month’s wines are for the hedonists among us – they’re meant to be chugged in the backyard or on the [...read more]