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Top Napa Valley Wine Tours

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If I had a nickel for every time I was asked what my favorite wineries in Napa are I could buy a bottle of Screaming Eagle, or at the very least a bottle of Nickel & Nickel. 🙂 Narrowing down the toasts of the town in the Napa Valley isn’t easy because when it comes to naming magnificent winemakers, my cup runneth over. However, it’s impossible to taste and tour all of Napa Valley in one trip no matter how big the Wine Oh! With that in mind here are my fav five, but they might not be yours. If

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Albariño

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Albariño (al-ba-ree-nyo) In honor of Wine Wednesday I picked up a bargain bin bottle of wine at Cost Plus. I grabbed a 2008 Burgans Albarino Rias Baixas marked down from $11.97 to $7.88 I walked away with a steal and a Wednesday worthy wine. According to the label the wine gets its name from the Burgans hills, the heart of the Salnes Valley in N.W. of Spain. Albariño is by far the the most popular grape variety in Rías Baixas and makes up 90% of all plantings. It is also one of the few Spanish white grape varieties produced as

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International Women’s Wine Competition Results (VIDEO)

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It’s a Woman’s Wine World! When it comes to wine purchasing power, women hold the purse strings. Studies show 8 out of 10 ladies are the ones lining up and checking out with wine to take at home.   In response to these stats, the International Women’s Wine Competition was created in their honor. In this video, Wine Oh TV’s Monique Soltani, who was fortunate enough to be one of the judges at the event, shows us why women and wine make the perfect pairing. Main Competition Sweepstakes Winners Best of Show: Calcareous Vineyard 2008 Tres Violet Best Red: Calcareous Vineyard 2008

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Top of the Mark: Celebrate the Season with Sparkling (VIDEO)

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Getting to the Bottom of the Bubbly Deciding which sparkling wine to celebrate the holiday season with can be enough to make you cringe. We are helping you pop the top on the cream of the crop and showing you some sparkling wines and Champagnes that are simply the toast of the town. In this video, Wine Oh TV’s Monique Soltani gives us a taste San Francisco’s Top of the Mark. InterContinental Mark Hopkins was built on the site of the old Mark Hopkins mansion, which burnt down after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. During World War II, when

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6 Wine Openers Put to the Test

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The drill, double-hinged, red-winged, easy-twist, black pull-tap, rabbit ears, ah-so, & the professional all sound a bit like tools of the trade for a torture chamber, but in fact they are all names of common day corkscrews that you can find in any wine store. To help the bold and not so bold navigate through the ins-and-outs of buying the correct accoutrement, it is nice to know that you are not alone. You know the scene: Mom and Dad busily make dinner in anticipation for friends to arrive. Earlier that day, they dutifully walk into the local wine store with

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Barbera

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Barbera (bar-BEAR-uh) A lot of patience, a few meditative yoga moves, including Omms, and a winemaker can reward the drinker with the perfect Barbera! Just as the name easily rolls off the tongue, so does this delicious drink. Barbera is a medium bodied wine with its characteristic ruby red color, pronounced tannins, and acidity. Typical flavors of red tart cherry, plum, and spice notes, with mild neutral oak influence and vibrant red and occasionally blue fruit flavors are what make Barbera so yummy.     The Barbera grape originated from Italy and is primarily found in the Piedmont and Asti

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2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

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The results are in for the largest competition of American wines in the world.  This year the stakes get even higher for the prestigious competition, as the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition sets a new record with 5,500 entries. 2012 SFCWC Sweepstakes Winners: Sparkling Wine: Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards 2006 Carneros Blanc de Blancs Sparkling Wine $28.00 White Wine: Dr. Konstantin Frank 2010 Finger Lakes Gewürztraminer Reserve $24.99 Pink Wine: Barnard Griffin 2011 Columbia Valley Rose of Sangiovese $12.00 Red Wine: McGrail Vineyards & Winery 2008 Livermore Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve $36.00 Dessert Wine: Castello di Amorosa 2010

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2012 SFCWC Sweepstakes Winners Speak

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On February 18, 2012 winners from the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition will gather at Fort Mason to pour their award winning wines to a sold out crowd. This year, a record number of amazing wines were submitted and scored by a panel of 50 esteemed judges in over 100 different categories. Over four days, judges sipped, sniffed, and swirled 5,050 wines until five sweepstakes winners were chosen. Wine Oh TV was given the privilege of interviewing the winemakers from three of the sweepstakes winners. The winemakers were more than willing to give some inside comments about their wine and

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2012 Cabernet Shootout Results

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Lightning never strikes the same place twice, but that doesn’t mean McGrail Cabernet can’t. First, by taking home the Red Wine Sweepstakes win at the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and now striking for the second time, winning the women’s choice for the Cabernet Shootout Challenge, second year in a row! Heather McGrail jokes about the win: “Good thing girls have better palates!” The Cabernet Shootout is a wine competition created by Barbara Drady, who owns and runs Affairs of the Vine. She is a “wine evangelist” of sorts, and runs Wine Boot camps, Shootout’s for both Pinot Noir

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Super Bowl Wine Steals

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The Super Bowl is right around the corner but before you plan your Super Bowl Party check out these Super Bowl wine picks. No doubt you will be dashing to the store to fill up on chips, hotdogs, hamburgers, cheese dip, guacamole, and wine! Wait a minute…did we forget to mention the beer?? Of course not! We at Wine Oh TV understand that beer and Football go together like Roquefort cheese and Sauternes, but we also know that it is possible to pair a good ole American Superbowl party with wine. So, we decided to help you find the best

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