Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Ages Gracefully

An impressive collection of Santa Cruz Mountains wineries and winemakers filled The Press Club in San Francisco on March 7 to share their wines with members of the trade and assorted media. Spoiler alert: the biggest shocker of the day was seeing that Richard Alfaro, he of the towering frame and Sampson-like locks, had cut

Top Ten Wine Discoveries from Silicon Valley Wine Auction: By Laura Ness The first ever Silicon Valley Wine Auction, held at Levi’s Stadium by the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association, to benefit the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, garnered a fine turnout and raised north of $600k with both live and silent auctions, which included some

What wine to get the big guy on Father's Day depends a lot on his taste and his personality. Here are a Whole Bunch of Different Types of Father's Day Wines for Dear Old Dad.

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

Beautiful, benevolent, gracious and gifted, our dearly beloved Katy Lovell, winemaker at Poetic Cellars in Soquel, CA, and mother of three, left us all too soon on July 10, 2013. She waged a brave battle against pancreatic cancer, following a two-year struggle with Lyme disease. To the end, she embraced life with a passion and