May 3, 2019

The Exciting “Taste of Oakville”

The Taste of Oakville is one of the biggest tasting events of the year in Napa Valley. Many of Napa’s most prestigious and sought-after wines (from Screaming Eagle to Opus One) are made in this one small viticultural area. Listen as Karen MacNeil interviews some of Oakville’s top vintners about what makes the wines so special.

Which of the following important rivers runs through the Rioja region of Spain?

A. The Duero River

B. The Río Oja

C. The Ebro River

D. The Guadalquivir River

The Ebro. Rioja, considered Spain’s preeminent wine region, spreads out for 75 miles along the Ebro River in northeastern Spain. The name Rioja, however, is probably derived from Río Oja, one of the seven small tributaries of the Ebro River. The Duero River runs through the Spanish wine region Ribera del Duero. And the Guadalquivir runs just north of Jerez (Sherry).

Pét-Nat

Pét-Nat is a contraction of the French term pétillant-naturel (natural sparkling). Pét-Nat wines are sparklers made in the “ancestral” method whereby the wine is bottled before primary fermentation is finished, without the addition of secondary yeasts or… Continue reading

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