Decades ago, a German winemaker pulled a label-less bottle of riesling from a fabric bag, pulled the cork, and asked me to taste it. It was a time when most imported German rieslings were sweet and the winemaker asked me,

Submit a Letter by April 10! April 7, 2026 — AB 1585, co-sponsored by CAWG and Family Winemakers of California, will be heard this month in the Assembly Governmental Organization [...]

Can an almost 100 year old wine still be alive in the bottle? Master sommelier Jay Fletcher has a burgundy from the 1930s and he is going to open, decant an...