Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy #91- St. Supery

St.Supery, 2007, Napa, Cali, Sauvignon Blanc

Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy #44 - Cedar Knoll, Cab.

If you ever, ever, make it up to Napa, and you dont call ahead for an appointment and tell em I sent you, and if they are available for the tour, you are in for the most amazing futuristic winery in the world..Where this wine is produced is home to the worlds largest underground, cave winery, its like 100,000 sq. ft. in a mountain..itsll blow your mind..the winemaker rocks, and their wines are delicious..Enjoy
The Cedar Knoll Vineyards, Hagens Reserve, 2005, Cabernet Sauvignon..

Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy # 28 - Benziger On Location

..we're on location with ATWG at Benziger up in Glen Ellen, in Sonoma..great place to visit, they have one of the best tours around..check em out anytime of year, and they will show you what biodynamic farming is all about..sorry bout the sound on this video was a bit loud in the background..

Zippy wine the Benziger 2007, Sauvignon Blanc from Sonoma

Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy # 26 - Kenwood Rose

Keep on rockin with the rose, the 2006 Kenwood

Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy # 23 - Frias Merlot

Yummy..y'know Merlot got a bad rap a few years ago and sales tumbled..but the growers kept on pluggin away and the winemakers kept on making some great juice..this Frias is no flabby Merlot..its a big boy, balance with depth that a Cab. drinker would love..ive found that napa is the best place for growing merlot in california..you get such rich and round styles, that are reminiscent of their French cousins in Bordeaux, but with layers of fruit that the old world just cant compare..

Grill up a ribeye and enjoy some of this Frias 2005, Napa, Merlot

Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy #17 - Bottleshock

its amazing how wine in the past handful of years has permeated american culture..really great to see, we are now a wine drinking country, outselling beer here in the u.s..and this tremendous rise in wines popularity can definately be seen in the way wine is now marketed and promoted..there are even now full length feature films about wines, and the people who make them..and the history of the business..had the pleasure of having a chance to speak w/ ross schwartz, the screen writer of the new wine movie "bottleshock"..its on the big screen in many major markets across the country..in a nutshell its about the paris tasting, and how california wines kicked ass..check it out in the theater, or as i am told it will be out on video soon..so grab your glasses, kick back and hit play..

with Ross Schwartz, of "Bottleshock", and the 2006, Gustave Thrace, Chard.

Taste Along w/ Adam the Wine Guy #14 - Chameleon

out of california, and even more so in napa, you generally see the basic cabernet, merlot, and chardonnay, but there are producers out there really trying different things..these guys at chameleon really make some interesting wines out of traditional italian grape varietals..they also do a pretty cool barbera, but i think that this one's my favorite of their wines..also, i generally stay away, and i mean far away from labels with animals, particularly of the cartoony variety..but, hey, there a some exceptions and this is one of em..and this charbono could be really great w/ foods..i think it would rock with some barbeque..which i found out on one of my recent trips to france is a french word..barb-from the word for beard, and que-from the butt..so if you think about a long skewer and a fire pit and a pig..it would be skewered from the barb to the que...hence barbeque..yeehah!..i think thats french also..

drink up the Chameleon, 2001, Charbono, from Napa

Taste Along with Adam the Wine Guy #5 - Bota Box

Decent wine in a box..who woulda thunk?..well, i think it started back with the Franzia's and their tremendous marketing of box wine to the general public. and what a job they did. i think i see it in every grocery store i walk into..so one day i get this package and its a big, and heavy, i may add, box, with a bunch of boxes of boxed wine inside..figured we should give it a whirl on the "Taste Along"..I think overall these packages are really great for an everyday type wine, haven't tasted anything high end in a box yet (with out the breathe-ability it would be an interesting experiment) but the package is certainly green. you can recycle the whole thing, and the box itself is even biodegradable..Some bonus' to wine in a box..once opened you can keep it for weeks, maybe even longer, because of the airtight and vacuum sealed bladder this juice doesn't see any air till it comes out of the handy spout. also, as you kids have found out, glass breaks! worst thing that could happen here is you could get a paper cut from the box..and if you live in a small space, this is a great way to jam a ton of wine into a small package..so thats my take for now, what do you think?

rockin the Bota Box, 2005, California, Pinot Grigio