Had guests® over this past weekend for a variety of birthday celebrations and tried the following:  The 2006 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino is another shining example of excellence in this vintage. As others have written, this may be the…

So said, Thomas Jefferson in 1816.   As I have written here before, Thomas Jefferson was a great lover of the finer things in life.  Art, wine, cognac, culinary delights, gardening, and the power of the written word. For he said to…

It begins with a word from Monte Vertine that can be called obsessed at worst, passionate at a minimum; but dedicated for certain. “We have deliberately avoided cultivating other types of grapes such as Cabernet, Pinot Nero or Merlot because we want to…

If the question asked of me most often is wine question 101: “Why do I like wine so much?”  then wine question 102 has to be, “Why do I age wines?”  The subject of this post helps to answer that question. Castello…