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Posted inWine

Vine Social: The Second Palm Springs Wine Fest Proved the Meaning of ‘California Wines’ Is Shifting—in a Most Welcome Way

I love California wine—but perhaps not in the way that you think. California wines are often described with adjectives like powerful, jammy, oaky, buttery, ripe, intense and concentrated—but it’s descriptors like these that make my stomach turn and have me reaching for the nearest can of Modelo. Yes, the flavor profiles that have become synonymous […]

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