Westwood redFOUR 2005

“The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.”  –  Robert Louis Stevenson

This Rhône blend rocks it.  Westwood redFOUR 2005 is a dark red bing cherry hue that swirls in glass in an enticing manner revealing gorgeous legs.   It has a berry nose with cherry on the palate and a lingering [...]

Seven Daughters

“Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.”   — Toni Morrison

The Seven Daughters wines are fun.  Easy drinking, eminently quaffable; the wines you open when you want to just drink wine, not over-evaluate your beverage.  These are playful little table wines, perfect for big parties [...]

Cleavage Creek Tracy Hills Merlot-Shiraz 2007

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”  –  Rainer Maria Rilke

Cleavage Creek Tracy Hills Merlot-Shiraz is a brash little wine to start.  It was a fiery wine, almost too aggressive, [...]

Mendocino Farms Fairbairn Ranch Syrah 2005

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”  — Anne Bradstreet

When life hands you hardship, grab a bottle of [...]

6th Sense Syrah 2007

“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”  — W. Somerset Maugham

You don’t have to be psychic to enjoy 6th Sense Syrah.  Nor will you see dead people.  (Unless, of course, you drink too much [...]

Vina Robles Red4

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”  –  Aristotle

Vina Robles Red4 is a tasty quaff, truly the whole is better than its parts.  The wine is an appealing garnet color with lush flavors of bing cherries, blackberries and cassis, with a supple backbone of toast and vanilla.  It’s a great wine [...]

Mendocino Farms Redvine Series 2005

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

Wine Harlots believe in living your values.  Believe in sustainable agriculture, organic, biodynamic?  Then we have a wine for you.  Mendocino Farms Redvine Series [...]

James David Central Coast Syrah 2005

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. “   — Edgar Allen Poe

If this wine is a dream, I never want to wake up.  It’s a gorgeous deep, dark, dusky red.  The wine is so silky-smooth [...]

Three Coins Knights Valley Syrah 2006

“She’s afraid that if she leaves, she’ll become the life of the party”  –  Groucho Marx

This is a great celebratory wine.  The color is dark purple raising to fuschia.  The flavors are bold and bright, raspberry, blackberry and pepper.  One of the tasters,  Eve Sieminski, declared it was “a backseat of a limo [...]

G3 - Goose Ridge Vineyards

“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.” – Alice B. Toklas

And what lovely sauce this is! The G3 from from Washington’s Goose Ridge Vineyards, is really good juice.  It has a [...]