The Second Glass

The “winery” is a 18 x 12ft building on a hill in California’s Napa Valley. The entire vineyard is one acre, or for a more accurate measurement, 80 vines. Each year Screaming Eagle produces somewhere between 500 and 700 cases of wine, which, by comparison to even modest sized wineries, is minuscule. Basically, this stuff [...]

Hailing from Pomerol in the famed Bordeaux region of France, Château Pétrus is the kind of wine that drinkers are lead to believe, can make dreams come true. This stuff is what the “build a wine cellar to impress your friends”, type of person spends years searching for. Yes, it’s probably very good wine but [...]