Jessica Fialkovich

With Organic, Sustainable, and Biodynamic all trending words in wine lingo, wineries are leading the way in activities supporting our earth. Here are just a few that I find quiet impressive:

It's not often in life that you find a bottle of wine that completely sums up your philosophy. We were fortunate enough to be introduced to such a bottle by one of our customers (thank you Bill!) last week. It's called simply "I Will Not Drink Bad Wine." There you go, our philosophy on life (well at least how its related to wine).

In honor of our first upcoming Brew Ha-Ha, or beer festival if you will, I thought I would dedicate a post to our most popular beer question….What's the difference between a lager and an ale?

South African wine is hot right now. It's the new trend everyone is following, and its event hotter to travel there and taste South Africa's ‘real' wine (it is highly rumored that they exported the ‘crap' and keep the good stuff for themselves).

We may not remember it clearly, but the headlines during the summer of 2008 were all about the wildfires raging in California. They spread from Santa Barbara to Oregon.

A few weeks ago we made the lengthy voyage up to Tampa (ok it was only a two hour drive) to dine at Bern's Steak House. We've heard over and over and over about how wonderful this place is and how the wine list is just beyond comparison.

I did a presentation for a large corporate group last night and had some surprisingly questions/comments that I have compiled below in what I feel are the most common misconceptions about wine. Feel free to add your own or expand on mine!

Last night myself and forty-plus other individuals entered our journey into The Wine Century Club. (For more on The Wine Century Club and our tasting series, click here.) Twenty-five wines and twenty-six grape varietals later we had all discovered a lot of new aspects of wine, and something we all loved that we hadn't even known existed prior to the night. Here are a selections of the favorites from the night.

Being ‘universal' means that they apply to you whether or not you're aware of them, much like gravity. However, knowing the principles is the first step to increasing your choices and raising your game in health, wealth, love and happiness, so … read on, you're in the right place.

Yet another bill has been introduced to U.S. Congress that will limit direct shipments of wine, House Resolution 1161 resumes the battle that H.R. 5034 fought last year (and lost).