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  WE MOVED!  

Some content over on the new blog: 

    Hey Mabel, Wine Labels from the Good Ol’ Days!

    Cowan Cellars Beginnings – March, 2010 update

    Palmina—California’s Italian Variety Specialist

    The Traveling Rothburys Go Furthur ~ Chicago

    A wine that says “Drink Me” in more ways than one

    Red Wings & Red Rhônes: ‘06 & ‘07 Domaine de Font Sane Gigondas

    Niagara’s 2010 Cuvee Event & ‘Experts’ Tasting

   Getting Rouged: Lunch with Steve Edmunds and his new releases

   Alan Kerr’s February 20th, 2010, Vintage’s Release – Tasting Notes


   Blog Watch: Making Dom Pérignon ~ Richard Geoffroy’s Blog

   Florida Jim Cowan’s 2010 Tasting Notes Archive

    Hangin' with Luca Carrado and the wines of Vietti

   Bonny Doon Wine Dinner at El Barzon

   Alan Kerr’s February 6th, 2010, Vintage’s Release – Tasting Notes

   Ridge Vineyards Wine Dinner at Encore by J. D. Wesley ~ Toledo

   Welcome “Florida” Jim Cowan!

 

 ~~ THE RIDGE FILES  ~~

  Tasting Notes From the Ridge - An archive the Gang's Ridge Tasting Notes
  The Ridge Report - The latest tasting notes from Day-twah

  


Gang of Pour
co-founder, 
George Heritier
sez, "I'm not a wine critic, but
I play one on the Internet
"


Kim Adams,
Gang of Pour co-founder, makes wine vinegar in her spare time. You might find her roasting shoat in the back forty or salting slugs in the front.


Professional chef, Alan Kerr (Canadian Zinfan)
is the Gang's token Canadian Correspondent.  A British Subject, he grows to-mah-toes in Niagara, Ontario. 

 
Despite a career as an in-house attorney for Nissan Motors, Bennett Traub's real interest has been wine, primarily French and California, with enough interest in the wines of Austria, Spain, Italy and New Zealand to keep things interesting.


After a brief five year hiatus, califusa returns to the Gang of Pour with his decidedly Left Coast perspective on wine in general and California wine in particular.
He lives and works on the alluvial plains north of San Francisco


Although Brad Baker will drink anything, anytime, anyplace, he prefers his wine with a few bubbles in it.


Boyce Branock (BEB)once said, "Jefferson was correct when he wrote, 'No nation is drunken where wine is cheap,' solely because he’d never attended a NASCAR race." Check out BEB here...


Larry Meehan, devoted Dad, world traveler and prolific tasting note writer, among other endeavors, but only after "the insanity fades...


Greg Ellis, (VinPaysDoc is the Gang's proofreader, editor and avid Nascar fan who penned the hilarious Rednecks & Red Rhônes. And his  Le Tour du Rhône isn't too shabby either!

 

The Gang Gets Down At Rothbury Packin' Wine in a Box by George Heritier  06/2009

More Wine with Friends by George Heritier  06/2009

Hiking the Appellation Trail - and no, I wasn't  in Argentina tasting "Malbec"by Allan Bree 06/2009

Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards by Allan Bree 06/2009

Domaine du Vissoux Beaujolais V V Cuvee Traditionnelle- A Survey of Recent Vintages - by Larry Meehan  06/2009  

Six New Wines From Bonny Doon by George Heritier  06/2009

A Carlisle Tasting: Long Gone, Dead, and Resurrected by Bennett Traub  06/2009

Building a Better Wine List: Part 1 - Choosing New Wines for Slows' Bar B-Q by George Heritier  06/2009

Building a Better Wine List: Part 2 - Choosing New Wines for Slows' Bar  B-Q by George Heritier  06/2009

Pinot Noir Class at The Wine Country by Bennett Traub  06/2009

Hospice du Rhone 2009: Sour Notes But No Sour Grapes  by Boyce Brannock  06/2009

 Alan Kerr's Vintage's June 6th Release - Tasting Notes 06/2009

Red Wings & Red Rhônes Playoff Diary 2009-Round 2 by George Heritier       05/2009

Ten Years After - The Continuing Adventures of Russell Bevan  by Allan Bree  05/2009

Alan Kerr's Vintage's May 23rd Release - Tasting Notes 05/2009

Wines With Malware by George Heritier  05/2009

Rosé Olé! - The pink, the whole pink & nothing but the pink by George Heritier  05/2009

Going To The Well(s) -- Gutherie, That Is, And The New Copain by Bennett Traub  05/2009

Bittersweet - Donn Reisen's Memorial Service  by Allan Bree  05/2009

A Bennion Retrospective: Early Monte Bellos  by Allan Bree  05/2009

Red Wings & Red Rhônes Playoff Diary 2009-Round 1 by George Heritier  05/2009

Rednecks & Red Rhônes: Edwards Got Wrecked and So Did I by George Heritier  05/2009

Reminiscing With Remoissenet and Rovani  by Alan Kerr  05/2009
 

A Week in Wine - Part III - SoCal Grape & Gripe Group by Bennett Traub  04/2009

A Week in Wine - Part II - Wines & Tastings by Bennett Traub  04/2009

A Week in Wine - Part I - Dinner With Al Stewart by Bennett Traub  04/2009

More Holiday Hijinx With Mr. Ridge (and Ravenswood too!) - It all started with two bottles of then unreleased Ridge wines  by George Heritier  04/2009

More Red Wings & Red Rhônes 2009 - New from the Perrin family &  more by George Heritier  04/2009

Kermit Lynch's Traveling Roadshow by George Heritier  04/2009

2 Late Model Cornerstone Cabs  by George Heritier  03/2009

Cono Sur 2008 - Brilliant QPR wines from Chile by George Heritier  03/2009

A QPR Rave~up - Value oriented wines from around the world and more
     
by George Heritier 
03/2009

Francophilia 2009 - Small batch artisanal wines from France
      by George Heritier 
03/2009

 

The Wines of Charles Hendricks - Including selections from hope & grace, Regusci, Nine North Wines and an exclusive interview
by George  Heritier
 03/2009

I am BastardoTasting Notes from the Underground

The home of Red Wings and Red Rhones and much, much more...

 

RIDGESTOCK 2002

3 Days of Wine, Food & Friends in Sonapanoma   

 

Blast Me Off to Sonoma - Where it all started

Bacchus Does Sonapanoma - Spring sucked, but it got better.  Way better!

Napa Confidential - A Day at Chateau Montelena

Rednecks & Red Rhônes - If you say wine and NASCAR don't mix, we'll kick 'yo ass!

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