WineCompass

Raise your hand if like me, you thought Sweet Bordeaux would refer to just the wonderful wines of Sauternes? I learned preparing for the ...

Locations is a concept by winemaker Dave Phinney that attempts to create a wine encompassing the various wine regions within a country or...

Locations Wines are the result of an organic brainstorming session when Dave Phinney imagined the possibility of creating a French wine ac...

Last August during Wine Bloggers Conference 2015 I was able to sample a few Bordeaux styled red wines from Lebanon's Chateau Ksara .  T...

This time of year wineries across the country market selected seasonal wines ready to be uncorked for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Last week ...

Even though we live in Virginia, the closest winery to us is actually in Maryland, Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard . We've been heading up...

Most of you are probably already aware of the phylloxera epidemic that ransacked Europe vineyards starting in 1867. One Bordeaux grape, Carm...

This week's topic on #winechat was Champagne and unfortunately I was delinquent in purchasing a bottle. Fortunately I did have a sparkl...

A recent #winechat session on Cabernet Franc reminded me of several nice wines from this grape that I had tasted from a relatively unknown w...

On the heels of tasting some fabulous eastern European wines at the Washington D.C. Int'l Wine Festival , we were invited to attend a sp...

On Thursday, May 10th, we participated in the Bordeaux Wine Bureau’s second annual Today’s Bordeaux tasting of 100 “classic, contemporary, ...