Wine and Food Travel

I was so excited about my sailing trip on the Schooner Zodiac that I could hardly sleep the night before we set sail. The Zodiac is a 160 ft.  windjammer built in 1924 for the Johnson family (of Johnson & Johnson).  It is a two-masted gaff topsail Schooner with 7,000 square feet of sail area.  The main sail itself is 4,000 square feet. During the Depression the schooner was sold to the San Francisco...

Photo credit - Guilliaume Paurmier (Flickr) Whoever said that the best ”Cabernet” comes from France may have been a “Frenchman.”  Although the term best is subjective, it is quite possible that a few local wines and wineries may be giving said “Frenchman” a reason to be tongue tied.  At the San Francisco Wine Competition, over 4000 bottlings were sampled and judged...

Photo credit 0 City Winery (Flickr)   Although this announcement is a little late in, we thought it was worth sharing the news about the final concert this Saturday July 14,2012 at Robert Mondavi’s winery. This year, the winery is once again hosting its 43rd Annual Summer Concert Festival with a line up of great artists. This concert festival is in support of  Napa Valley Symphony and...

James Lawrence takes a luxury wine tour through the region of Bordeaux – you may have heard of it Bordeaux is probably the most well-known of France’s (if not the world’s) great wine regions. Indeed, even committed teetotallers will have heard of this legendary name and it would be fair to say that Bordeaux literally represents mecca for most wine lovers, albeit an extremely diverse...

First Movement My wife and I did not get to hear the live music at Harris Bridge Vineyards but we certainly enjoyed the exclusively made desert wine crafted by Amanda Sever and Nathan Warren. The husband and wife team are winemakers, farmers and hosts of their enchanting tasting room. The concert events are a real treat and often feature Matt the Electrician, Amanda’s brother. Electrician? Matt started...