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Vineyards in the Dry Creek Valley AVA in central Sonoma County

Appellation type
U.S. County

Year established
1850

Country
USA

Part of
California, North Coast AVA

Sub-regions
Alexander Valley AVA, Bennett Valley AVA,Chalk Hill AVA, Dry Creek Valley AVA, Green Valley of Russian River Valley AVA, Knights Valley AVA, Los Carneros AVA, Northern Sonoma AVA, Rockpile AVA, Russian […]

Jon F.
This is indeed one of those posts where I get a little gushy. For 7 years I put my heart and soul into creating and developing the potential of the Smithbrook vineyard.  Along with my boss and mentor Michael Symons, we inherited an over managed, over cropped vineyard and successfully transformed it into one […]

In 1972, the visionary David Wynn established the Mount Adam vineyards in the High Eden sub-region of the Eden Valley, South Australia. The painstaking research and trials that took place to find the perfect site built the foundation for the success of the Mounadam brand, particularly Chardonnay.
The criteria for the selection was based on three […]

 
Slovenian wine is wine from the Central European country of Slovenia. Viticulture and winemaking has existed in this region since the time of the Celts and Illyrians tribes, long before the Romans would introduce winemaking to the lands of France, Spain and Germany. Today Slovenia has more than 40,000 wineries making 1 million hl (26.4 […]

Moldova has a well established wine industry. It has a vineyard area of 147,000 hectares (360,000 acres), of which 102,500 ha (253,000 acres) are used for commercial production. Most of the country’s wine production is for export. Many families have their own recipes and strands of grapes that have been passed down through the generations.

Russian wine refers to wine made in the Russian Federation and to some extent wines made in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics though this later referencing is an inaccurate representation of wines from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine. The phrase Russian wine more properly refers to wine made in the southern part of […]

 
 
Shiraz is still one of the most popular grape varieties in the world, not least due to the extraordinary passion and commitment grapegrowers and winemakers in Australia have shown towards the variety. It’s success is due to a number of reasons, the vast versatility, the depth and complexity that can be achieved, and […]

 
We at The Wine Blokes have to admit we are idealists when it comes to growing and making great wine. The overwhelming philosophy is that to make good wine you need good fruit. This obviously requires the careful attention and nurturing of the grapes in the vineyard throughout the growing season. If […]

The Israeli wine industry has wineries numbering in the hundreds and ranging in size from small boutique enterprises making a few thousand bottles per year to the largest producing over ten million bottles per year.

//Wine in Ancient Israel
Wine has been produced in the Land of Israel since Biblical times. The ancient land of Israel […]

Here’s an excerpt from the Sunday Times Wine Club members handbook -giving you a taste of the professional service offered to new members. Not only does this publication give helpful advice on serving wine and choosing corkscrews, but the Club itself has a dedicated Wine Advice telephone line and storage facilities for fine wines. Here […]