This year, 79 wines made it to the final tasting for the 7th annual Livermore Uncorked Wine Competition put on by the amazing team at Tri-Valley Conservancy, the agency charged with preserving undeveloped and cultivated land from unmitigated urbanization. Among the acreage under their stewardship are several thousand acres of vines. This year’s big winner

Pinot Paradise 2105: Pinot Noir Gems from the Santa Cruz Mountains The venue — the historic Mountain Winery — was stunning and the weather made for big sky views, with towering clouds that swept away the vistas in fits and starts, returning them with sunlit highlights on the distant East Bay hills. A glorious spring

After receiving 6,417 entries from more than 28 states, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, recognized as the largest competition of American wines in the world and presented by BevMo!, has once again successfully narrowed thousands of wines down to an exclusive few.  The 2015 Sweepstake Awards, known as the best of the best in

The holidays are here and finding the right wine gift for the wine lover in your life is actually not as hard as you might think. All of these wine gifts are tried and true by yours truly or one of our fellow Wine Oh writers. I promise if your guy or gal likes wine

2014 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the premiere wine labels from the Central Coast, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, named for Jerry Lohr, pioneer in planting vineyards in both Monterey and in Paso Robles. The Rhone tale begins in the late 1980s, when Lohr saw Paso Robles pioneer, Gary Eberle, having success with

Wine Spectator has announced Dow’s Vintage Port 2011 as its 2014 Wine of the Year.  Like all Ports, Dow’s Vintage Port 2011 hails from the Douro River Valley in north central Portugal. This one was made by the Symington family, who has been making Port since 1882 and is the region’s single biggest landowner. In