WineCompass

This past week I was invited to participate in a tasting of four biodynamic, Gruner Veltliner wines from Austria for the weekly #winechat ...

Now that Savor has moved to NYC, American Craft Beer Week® is my favorite time to celebrate craft beer.And now that I'm a member of the...

What is the best First Communion Beer? That's the question I posed to myself while exploring Norm's Beer & Wine for beer for ...

Anyone ever tried a Zhumir product from Ecuador? Their flagship brand is SECO made from sugar cane juice - which is harvested in the comp...

Last weekend I was fortunate to be included in a two day celebration of local wine, particularly, Maryland wine, at the 2013 Drink Local W...

I'm looking forward to heading to Baltimore for the 2013 DrinkLocalWine Conference Friday and spent some time last night reviewing pa...

I've been making progress with the Android version of the WineCompass mobile application and have implemented the major search features...

This week's North American Wine Trails post comes from Kurt Jenson and his Wine About Virginia blog on a new wine trail in the Common...

This week saw the first #TGTaste twitter tasting of 2013 featuring two wines from New Zealand's Villa Maria Estate : the 2012 Private...

Courtesy of Boxwood Winery The Commonwealth of Virginia is home to a number of American Viticultural Areas (AVA) such as Monticello (198...

Figure 1 When not sipping and writing, my daily occupation is a software developer at Segue Technologies . As we all know, the technolog...

It was only a matter of time that we turned to a California wine in our The United Grapes of America series and I want to feature one of ...

We've always enjoyed visiting wineries when we traveled - whether the wineries were destinations in themselves, or when we wanted t...

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

In between tasting wine, we've been toasting to tequila - in particular two Blanco - 100% agave tequilas with two completely differe...

The fifth annual Drink Local Wine conference will be held this April13, 2013 in Baltimore Maryland, focusing on that state's growing ...

We posted last week on Maker's Mark decision to meet increased demand by changing their recipe by diluting their whiskey. Apparentl...

When regularly traveling to Overland Park, Kansas - many years ago, I settled Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery and Davenport Winery at l...

Due to the popularity of our listing of North American Wine Trails & Regions , we've decided to expand this topic by enlisting the...

Our final wine from the comp December Wine Chateau shipment was the Cakebread Cellars 2008 Benchland Select Cabernet Sauvignon ($85). N...