Wine and Wild Spaces

I hope your new year is off to a good start. I’m starting off the year with some wines from two places I love, California and Arizona. Mendo...

Copain was one of the first California producers I really geeked out on. My first taste was a 2006 Syrah from the famed Brosseau Vineyard, ...

As readers of this blog know, I review a lot of wines, especially wines from California. Sure I'm an Old World-lover, but I never go too...

Always a good pairing: Syrah and snowstorms. Every once in a while, I come across a wine that is so damn good I just have to write a who...

Copain has consistently been one of my favorite purveyors of Cali Syrah. California Syrah has seen its ups and downs. Many of my wine fr...

The Rhone Valley of France has always been one of my favorite wine regions, partly because it’s the ancestral home of so many amazing grape...

Nine months ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Another Reason I Love Mendocino Syrah,” the reason being a 2003 Eaglepoint Ranch syrah from C...

Eaglepoint Ranch Vineyard (Purple Teeth Cellars, LLC) Anyone who’s drunk or talked wine with me has probably heard me rant about my lo...

I've been a fan of Copain wines for a long time. Most of my experience has been with their single-vineyard syrahs  from older vintag...

2003 Meyer Family Syrah (USA, California, Mendocino County) I bought this wine because I love Mendocino syrah, and my girflriend'...

2004 Bink Wines Syrah Hawks Butte Vineyard Yup, another Mendocino County syrah. I can't get enough of them. Considering the silly na...

My friend Matt (aka Tooch) and I have been tasting wine together since 2008. We've thrown dozens of tastings and shared hundreds of bot...

My brother Zeke and his wife Bekah have been on a cross-country road trip from California to the East Coast by way of Utah, Chicago, Detr...

2007 Tahto Syrah (USA, California, North Coast, Potter Valley) The first time I tasted this syrah was from the barrel at a small winery in...

It's Sunday night. I just got back from a great trip to New Orleans and had to do some homework. So I figured I'd pop a bottle of wi...