WineCompass

After countless trips to Charlottesville, I finally skirted off Route 29 and headed into downtown Culpeper. theCompass app had alerted me t...

Last month I received samples from Oak Ridge Winery , specifically four wines focusing on their unique Old Soul brand. I say unique in the...

One of my favorite wine country destinations in Virginia is Nelson County, located just southwest of Charlottesville and encompassing the...

Looking for good food and a good sour (after all I am moving to the sour side), Charlottesville's South Street Brewery was a fitting s...

Ironically, the Tyson's Gordon Biersch Brewery is not far from my home, yet I only seem to visit once a year. Probably a general aver...

"I don’t follow trend, I make wine of conviction. I make wine I want to enjoy myself." ~ Yannick Rousseau The final Protoco...

Through the power of web technology, last week I participated in a presentation by winemaker José Moro of Emilio Moro Winery on Ribera del...

This week New Zealand's, Villa Marie Estate Winery hosted a #NZSauvBlanc twitter tasting focusing on two of the winery's Sauvigno...

The third week of the Protocol #WineStudio Rosé series features more Sonoma County rosé, this time from Donelan Family Wines in the 2014 R...

Oregon's Willamette Valley is the Beaver State's most dynamic, and probably, most diverse winegrowing region. Most are familiar wi...

This week Karen MacNeil , of the Wine Bible fame and Keynote Speaker at the upcoming 2015 Wine Bloggers Conference , hosted a twitter tast...

The Protocol #WineStudio Rosé series continued this week by featuring the POE 2014 Sonoma County Old Vine Pinot Noir / Pinot Meunier Ros...

Our annual trip to an away Nationals series landed us in Milwaukee and Miller Park , the home of the aptly named Brewers . As the name sug...

June's #WineStudio concentrates on dry rosé and features several wines from regions and grapes you'd normally not associate with ...

At next year's SAVOR event I need to attend both evenings as I determined one night is not enough time to visit with all the breweri...

Along with the Columbia Crest samples, I received three wines from fellow H3 winery Red Diamond Winery , all priced in the $10 value rang...

Hopefully everyone who plans to attend SAVOR this weekend has already previewed the beer selections. If you're not familiar with the ...

It was a joyous household in May after receiving a package of H3 wines from Columbia Crest Winery , the largest producer in Washington Sta...

The week wraps up Finger Lakes Wine Month and to continue its marketing the Finger Lakes Wine Alliance sent our samples for a #WineHour Tw...

May's #WineStudio continued it's focus on VinoRai 's program to import Turkish wines into the United States. Last week we le...