"Every so often there is a certain barrel that grabs your soul."  - Adam Lazarre Every once and again I get what I call jokingly call a winecrush. It's usually on someone fairly young and accomplished who has an amazing passion for wine. For a while, my reigning winecrush was on Johannes Leitz, an ...

There's been a ton of shit i've been meaning to mention.  Let's see if i can remember most of it... Just over a year ago, i got a T-shirt addressed to 'rone'.  Then about a year after that, i received an envelope addressed to Ron 'Tron Guy' Echeverri, with a PO Box in San Luis Obispo as it...

We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar (part one is here). John has offered a free issue from his backlist to any Dr. Vino reader so surf on over to his site and check it out. In this part of the Q&A, I had intended Joh...

On Monday night the grapes for my yet-to-be-named wine arrived at the winery.  As many of you already know, the grapes I'm using for the base of my wine are from Stolpman Vineyard in the Ballard Canyon area of the Santa Ynez AVA.  (I'm sure there was a better way to write that last sentenc...

Let's go back to 1994.  Nancy Kerrigan is whacked with a metal bar. ER and Friends debut on NBC.  Kurt Cobain takes his life at 27.  Forrest Gump is running across U.S. screens. I am in NYC- a modern dancer performing with the Nikolais Louis Dance Company.  My best friend, Christ...

With the New Year fast approaching I thought it would be fun to cast our eyes back over my blogs of 2007 and remind ourselves of the events in the wine world that hit the headlines . . . Several celebrities took the plunge into the proverbial wine glass and became vintners this year. From Ghostbuste...