Knights of Wine Society

03/15/2020

Sometimes we drink whiskey

09/14/2019

And if you don't know, now you know

If you won’t believe a climate scientist when they tell you recent summers have been abnormally hot, how about a vintner? In vino veritas, after all (in wi

08/02/2019

Well, well, what do you know? Robert Parker made the list. I would love to blind taste against him some day. Apparently he gets everything wrong, pretty much like I do :)

Today we pay tribute to these overlooked zeitgeist wranglers.

06/06/2019

So proud of Joy Sterling right now, best wine to ever represent US!

California wines dominated the menu at a dinner hosted by President Trump and attended by Prince Charles and guests, including prime minister Theresa May...

05/23/2019

2 pallets of wine is not really something you can easily hide in your pockets. This was an inside job, let's call it for what it is...

More than 1,000 bottles have been stolen...

05/20/2019

Although Whispering Angel is a great value, I'm not sure about a $100 Rose release...

It's never been a hotter time to be in the rosé business.

04/30/2019

Sometimes we drink whiskey!

11/21/2018

News worth following

Henry-Frédéric Roch, propriétaire du Domaine Prieuré-Roch à Nuits-Saint-Georges et co-gérant avec Aubert de Villaine, du domaine de la Romanée-Conti s’est éteint hier.

11/12/2018

Is it white wine only, as he said or they also use red? Why white, I wonder?

Prince Charles has lifted the lid – or bonnet – of his wine-powered DB6 and described how the bizarre conversion came into existence.

11/07/2018

I know most of you heard the news last Wednesday but I just want to say RIP, Dave. You will always be a good friend, mentor and you will live forever in our hearts. For all those that met him, I'm sure he left a lasting impression!

Dave Pickerell, who has been called the “Johnny Appleseed of American Whiskey,” died on Nov. 1 in San Francisco. According to WhiskeyCast, he was 70.

10/28/2018

Great read!

You’ve heard of the 1976 Judgment of Paris, the competition that proved to the stuffy French establishment that California, too, was capable of great wine. You may remember the media hoopla around one of the Judgment’s myriad anniversaries. Maybe you learned about it in the new film “Somm 3......

10/16/2018

I bet Robert Drouhin (Maison Drouhin) probably got this for free or close to nothing back in the day. I wouldn't be surprised if he owned several cases of it.

The 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy sold at a Sotheby's auction for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000.