News & Features
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Travel Tips
A guide to vineyards and wineries on Sonoma's beautiful back roads
Posted: July 30, 2012 By Tim Fish
Blogs
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Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
Cline Cellars consistently offers good quality at a fair price
Posted: July 25, 2012 By Tim Fish
What's not to like? That's a phrase I use when it comes to describing good wines that sell for a reasonable price. There aren't many California wineries that can consistently offer quality value wines across the board. I've blogged about Bogle and Columbia Crest as part of an ongoing series on labels that overdeliver on quality relative to price, and Cline Cellars is in that same league.
Blogs
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Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
Choosing between the two is almost as important as where you go
Posted: July 11, 2012 By Tim Fish
Vacations generally fall into two categories: active and relaxing. Some people like to explore exotic locales or scamper to the top of large and dangerous things, while others prefer to beach themselves in the sun for a week. It also depends on what vacation you're in the mood for. It's more complicated for wine lovers, however. Should you take a wine vacation or a vacation from wine?
June 30, 2012 Issue
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Tasting Reports
The outstanding 2009 vintage yields wines of balance and finesse
Posted: June 30, 2012 By Tim Fish
Blogs
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Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
The wine world is full of people who seem to know it all
Posted: June 27, 2012 By Tim Fish
A long time
ago, before I started writing about wine and food for a living, I was a
newspaper reporter. I covered everything from fatal car crashes to rock
concerts, and interviewed everyone from movie stars to murderers on death row.
A lot of
the beats required little more than fearless interrogation skills and the
ability to type like an AK-47, but some called for specific knowledge and
experience, and that's when I learned that the line between passion and
snobbishness is razor thin.
Blogs
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Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
Cellaring wines for your children can be a history lesson
Posted: June 20, 2012 By Tim Fish
With all the great California Cabernet Sauvignons that came after, people tend to forget the 1991 vintage, but it was an excellent one. California Cabernet came into its own with the 1985s, but for me the early benchmark was always 1991.
From the start, the wines showed great depth and balance, and were immediately drinkable, but you had the sense they would age gracefully. For me they had an additional significance: My daughter Sophie was born in 1991.
We celebrated her 21st birthday last week and I opened a few of the 1991s I've had in my cellar since they were released. The bottles were in great shape and the wines had aged beautifully. They made up for all those bottles I've opened with anticipation over the years only to be disappointed.
June 15, 2012 Issue
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Features
Rising quality draws on the local bounty
Posted: June 15, 2012 By Tim Fish
June 15, 2012 Issue
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Features
Call of the wild
Posted: June 15, 2012 By Tim Fish
June 15, 2012 Issue
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Features
Pinot lovers' paradise
Posted: June 15, 2012 By Tim Fish
June 15, 2012 Issue
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Features
Beautiful back roads
Posted: June 15, 2012 By Tim Fish
