Sparkling Wines and Champagne

This blog covers The Spirits of New Mexico show we aired on December 26th a few days ago. While many of the celebrations have already occurred as we begin a new year there will doubtless be more opportunities to buy discounted sparklers. While any sparkler is festive...

California Zinfandel Prime Regions

As we head into Thanksgiving week we are sampling a uniquely American grape; Zinfandel. There are several areas that excel with this grape, and many of them are in California where the grape originated on American soil. This grape like so many others arrived courtesy...

Up On the Rooftop: A Christmas Story

The pounding on the door jolted me out of a sound slumber. Between the fragile warmth of a New Mexican winter sun and the background rumble of the heater; early afternoons make me drowsy. The midday sun flooded the family room with golden light, and with my wife’s...

What Are Supermarket Wines?

Supermarket wines are poured and worlds collide was the title of a February 4 article by Eric Asimov, the highly-regarding wine writer for the New York Times. I came upon it right after I viewed an interview with Esther Mobley, the wine writer for the SF Chronicle on...