What happens when a winemaker gets their hands on a bunch of apples? Obviously they start making hard cider!Well, at least 5 different winemakers have made cider because I recently tasted 7 ciders from 5 different winemakers. We’re gonna talk about the best 3 that we tasted...But first … why make cider? I have no definitive answer to why it is a trend to see a winemaker craft a cider but I’m guessing that, at least, part of it has to do with wanting something refreshing and low alcohol to drink during the long and arduous hours of harvest and...

  If it is true that there ain’t no 50 cent Ferrari but there is a really good Honda (see last week’s blog on that topic) then does it also mean that there is a really good, yet expensive, Honda out there too? Or in wine terms: is there a producer of great inexpensive wine that also makes a great and expensive wine … and is that wine really worth it?To take the analogy further … Honda makes the NSX Supercar. Runs less than 200K and fairs pretty well against the entry level McLaren, Ferrari, or Lamborghini ‘supercars’ but starts...

A long time ago one of my wine mentors told me, “There ain’t no 50 cent Ferrari”. If you’ve ever been around me then you know that sentiment is one of the most important things that I keep in mind when finding wines - I try to search out and find those wines that have the quality level of a Ferrari but the cost of a Honda. Sometimes it's just self evident that if the price is half as much that the quality will be half, or more, less but there are super rare occasions where there is, in fact,...

Every year around this time the blogs start filling up with 'Gift Giving Guides' and 'How to Throw a Wine Party’ posts. After reading four or five of them I was ready to throw my laptop out the window - the amount of useless and asinine info in many of them is mind numbing and it makes me realize why people shopping around this time of year all look shell-shocked… they’ve been beaten silly by stupid 'what and what not to do' lists. For the love of all that is good and right in the world let’s stop making things...

The holidays are an awfully busy times for all of us and, let’s be honest, usually far too expensive as well. With both of those two things in mind we try to start each interaction with guests here at Sunfish by defining the parameters of what is going to happen: i.e. I ask them how much they wanna spend. Here is a collection of some of my holiday favorites for every price point plus some easy solutions to common holiday problems. Be sure to use code WINTER17 during checkout for FREE SHIPPING. How do you pick the perfect holiday wine? Pairing wine...