Vino!

As our 2009 vintage of pinot noir is put to bed, we can now turn our attention to the 2010 vintage we have in barrel. This year we got our grapes from Cottonwood Canyon Winery in Santa Maria Valley. Due ...

The first job of a wine is to be delicious. In summer, job No. 2 is to be refreshing.

Restaurants and wineries were in Heritage Square recently for the fourth annual celebration of the Ventura County Wine Trail and the launch of its new interactive website.

I am sure many of you are familiar with this scenario: At a wine store, you come across your favorite cabernet sauvignon and next to it is one you have never heard of, but it states on the talker card ...

Go ahead and have cheese fondue, but don't expect the wine to help with your digestion.

Wine-related things to do and see in and around Ventura County

Delta Air Lines’ master sommelier Andrea Robinson opened up bottle after bottle of white and red wine from France, Italy, Australia, the United States and other parts of the world.

Looking for a summer wine? Roses are a blooming good choice.

When it debuted in 2008, the Ventura County Wine Trail might have drawn comparisons to an easy day hike. Now, with the latest reprinting of the map, the trail has turned into the equivalent of a multiday trek stretching from ...

Once a year I like to throw out a wine quiz to help you see how much you really know about wine. Or I should say how much you really know about some obscure facts about wine.

Upcoming local wine events

After grapes are harvested — usually in the fall — the grapevines will usually go untouched until the vine goes dormant in January. This dormancy, depending on the region, usually lasts until the beginning of March.

War service and chardonnay aren't usually associated with each other. But they are at Lavish Laines, a relatively new winery in the growing Livermore Valley wine region, where besides being started by military veterans, it also tries to give them ...

Wild spring weather across California's wine country has been enough to drive a vintner to drink.

When JoAnn Stear opened Eaton Hill Winery in the 1980s, she was among the pioneers of Washington’s modern wine industry.