Of course you are familiar with Caymus! Chuck Wagner, the founder of Caymus, is the father or Joe Wagner, who started Belle Glos in 2001. Joe named the vineyard to honor his grandmother, Lorna Belle Glos Wagner, who was a co-founder of Caymus. But, t
Gavi is a DOCG wine region in Piedmont, in Northwest Italy. Piedmont has more high level wine areas than any other region in Italy, but is usually associated with intense red wines. Gavi, however, is a white wine made from the Cortese grape, and it i
In a previous post, we talked about why the word “champagne” is restricted to sparkling wine made in the Champagne region of France. In Spain, sparkling wine is called Cava, and in the United States, it is called sparkling wine. But, spar
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