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Category Archives: California

Tamber Bey Vineyards Review

December 7, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

While Robert Redford was filming The Horse Whisperer, he would regularly make his way down the winding mountain paths to the valley floor near Calistoga, nestled neatly amidst the two mountain […]

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Pellet Estate Review

November 21, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

Lately my wife, Sonja, has been pestering me about getting rid of my old Jeep Wrangler. It isn’t practical, she says, for a family man, what with the two doors, […]

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Chateau Montelena Winery Review

November 3, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

You’ve heard of Chateau Montelena. I pen (type) that line with a high degree of confidence because you’re reading this review on a web page devoted to wine, and if you’re […]

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Titus Vineyards Review

September 29, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

My wife became pregnant during the winter of 2014, and in September of the following year, little Titus was born. Somewhere between those two points in time, I discovered something […]

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Schramsberg Vineyards Review

July 14, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

The northern Napa Valley was still a thickly forested, rugged terrain, and a difficult place to navigate when Jacob Schram set forth to establish the second winery in the area, one year […]

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Far Niente Winery Review

July 12, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

The “noble experiment” that was Prohibition, the result of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, lasted from 1919 to 1933 and did irreparable damage […]

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Sutter Home Winery Review

June 9, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

I got one for ya: The manager of a wine bar, a sommelier, two wine writers, and two college students are all sitting on a front porch one evening drinking […]

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Grgich Hills Estate Review

May 25, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel 1 Comment

Forty years ago, the name “Napa Valley” meant little to anyone who wasn’t already living there. To those in the wine industry, it was something of a cute experiment, the […]

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Vermeil Wines Review

April 29, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel 1 Comment

As a lifelong fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, Coach Dick Vermeil is one of my sports heroes. He may never have brought a Super Bowl victory to my team, but he […]

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Charles Krug Winery Review

April 22, 2016by Mark & Sonja Gudgel Leave a comment

Peter Mondavi (moan-dah-vee), for much of his early life Peter Mondavi (mon-day-vee), died on February the 20th, 2016, in his home in St. Helena, California, just about two weeks prior […]

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