South Africa Winery Recommendations by California Winemaker Chase Carhartt

South Africa is a country given to controversy, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the wine wild child born of a union of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut provoked skepticism at first. Rather than being welcomed, it was treated with suspicion and mistrust in the conservative wine world. Traditionalists could not believe […]

Music and Wine Should be Paired. Both can transport you to another time, place or memory. Sometimes, those memories can help create whole new experiences and new memories. While he has been noted as the most logical choice to next portray the iconic James Bond, British actor Idris Elba’s creative streak extends far beyond the […]

Music and Wine should be paired. Both can transport you to another time or place. Listening to the psychedelic sounds of Rodriguez from his famed Cold Fact album from the 70’s, it’s pretty easy to get lost between daydreams and reality. I enjoyed this with a glass (OK, I had the bottle, oops! But I […]