With so many Americans staying home this winter, we’ve put together our list of best shows to binge watch right now on Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Amazon Prime. These are the perfect on demand television...

It is bittersweet for us to announce that January 15, 2021 was our Assistant Winemaker John Duckett’s last day at Jordan. Over the last 12 vintages, John has become an integral member of the team. H...

Lately, I’ve been organizing my musical recordings. I’m a big jazz fan. Somewhere along the line, during college, while I loved to listen to rock, especially the San Francisco style in the 1970’...

Mezcal comes from Nahuatl - the language spoken by the Aztecs - and translates to "oven-cooked agave".Whereas Mesoamerican priests and elites cooked and fermented the juices of agave plants for a...

While driving through my old college quarters I noticed a new distillery in the area, Shmidt Spirits -- located just north of College Park in Beltsville Maryland.  The venture was started by...

With so many Americans staying home this winter, we are sharing the love on social media–creating more ways for our fans to connect digitally and win delectable giveaways with photo contests, Facebo...

Once, on a fast run up the autostrada from Ancona to Verona, an old friend and I were talking about epiphanies. He’d had many in his life and had distilled it down to its essence. “It’s a bolt o...

"Members of Spainish nobility, the Vilarnau family settled in this special place that is Penedés in the 12th century. Vilarnau is a contraction of the latin, Vila Arnau, in other words the Arnau fami...

Last month BevFluence invited a community of wine enthusiasts to select a supermarket or large beverage retail chain and purchase six wines under $12.99 to review. We chose Wegmans since a new store j...

As the pandemic drags on, a worst-case scenario for hospitality businesses has unfolded in Sonoma County. With the onset of winter, temperatures are cooling and the rainy season is officially here. Th...

Transformational over Transactional Something I am detecting, acutely, in these early days of 2021, are the relationships that were shaped while working in the wine trade. How many times did I sit at ...

Millennia ago, long before the Caucasus region was divided up into nation-states, people living here were cultivating grapes. An ever-increasing body of archaeological and micro-botanical research sug...

If only this blog were a young girl who was turning into a woman. It would surely be more apt for these times. But a quinceañera it is not going to be for this old dinosaur of a blog, on the wine tra...

 “Well, this sure has been one doozie of a year.” How many times, at year's end, have you murmured that to yourself, over the past dozen or so years? Let me see, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012....

If there’s one thing we can all attest to after a year like 2020, it’s that wine is essential in good times and in bad. Smooth reds and crisp whites may have been the saving grace…...

Hello Friends,Pink-Party #63 (#PinkSociety on Twitter) recently welcomed Kristie Tacey, a Michigan native and research scientist turned winemaker who founded Tessier (the original French version of he...

Hello Friends, The fun-loving bunch at The Pink Society (#PinkSociety on Twitter) recently hosted Pink-Party #62 with special guest Ms. Theodora Lee. Ms. Lee is proprietor and winemaker of Theopo...

 Hello Friends, Just about every day, as wine o'clock approaches, you can find me uncorking or unscrewing a new adventure. Being a wine enthusiast, a wine writer, and someone who appreciates...

 Hello Friends, I recently had the pleasure of being invited to join an entertaining Facebook Watch Party put on by the good folks at Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) to celebrate Nat...

Hello Friends, We're midway through National Grilling Month, and I’ve been keeping my reliable Weber Kettle and Green Mountain pellet grill pretty busy. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has been bu...