Wayne Kelterer is putting together a really cool wine blog where he spends time shooting the breeze with winemakers and then reports back on the personalities and stories of the people in the wine industry, rather than being an armchair Robert Parker with copious over the top tasting notes of wines he’s drank.  His blog is [...]

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We made the decision to finish our FIZZ sparkling shiraz with a crown seal.  Wanna know why??? Read the whole article and interview with Jesse Porter from the Young Winos of LA here. The interview part is copied and pasted below… YW: Why did you choose to use an artificial closure for your first vintage [...]

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Wine Spectator Editor Harvey Steiman wrote a nice little piece on the 2008 Bright White Riesling in his ‘What We’re Drinking Now’  space on the Winespectator website: “A California White With No Need for Pretense”.  Au contraire!  I would like to point out that the Municipal Winemakers do have a great disdain for all that [...]

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Matt Kettmann from the Santa Barbara Independent gave us a nice little write-up in their Vintner’s Festival Preview: Municipal Winemakers: Recently unveiled during a Funk Zone warehouse tasting party, Dave Potter’s creatively named and decorated wines are full of youthful vigor and cultish buzz. Get jazzed on the Pale Pink (grenache and cinsaut) or the Dark Red (syrah [...]

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We received a nice nod from Hip Tastes author Courtney Cochran, in which she called us a ‘Winery to Watch’.  In Courtney’s words: Each year I attend countless wine tasting events where I am inevitably plied with the wines of hundreds if not thousands of producers from our own backyard and the far corners of [...]

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