Strings Attached: A Trio of Spanish Wines

I noticed this trio of wines because of the stringed instruments–two with guitars and one with a lute–featured on their labels. My husband and his son play the guitar, the latter professionally. My husband plays acoustic guitars, his fave being his beloved Martin D-28. All three of these wines have Spanish pedigrees, just like the [...]

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Coloring Outside the Lines

I’ve been noticing more paper-less wine labels at the wine store lately. For oenophiles who like to collect wine labels, you’re out of luck with bottles that feature direct screenprinting aka applied color labeling. The process involves baking the inked design on the bottle in a 1200-degree furnace. These wine labels offer several advantages to [...]

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Fear of Flying?

For one wine company, a moniker that has generated criticism in the world of wine is nothing to hide. In fact, it has chosen to be up front about how its wines come about, using the very term for its brand name. The wines under The Flying Winemaker label are from Cameron Hughes Wine, which [...]

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