City Club LA

Wine And Food, Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Apr 08, 2022
Over the last few months I've established a tradition of meeting up with a friend at the City Club LA. It's a great partnership: He covers the food and I bring the...

Back To Writing. Never Stopped Drinking.

Wine And Food, Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Mar 18, 2022
Hi All, apologies for the few weeks reprieve. My day job got the best of me. But while I haven't been able to put my fingers to the keyboard, I have most definitely...

Costco Wines (February 2022)

Wine Deals
by Winebounty Team | Feb 22, 2022
Okay people, it's time to drop what you're doing and run (not walk) over to Costco. Not sure if it's a palindrome day party (2/22/22) or what, but the deals are raging...

WEEKLY WINE ROUND-UP (#34)

Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Feb 18, 2022
Picked this up a few years back while visiting Rusack Vineyards in Solvang, CA (which, btw has a phenomenal patio under a series of old, majestic oak trees). Great...

Weekly Wine Round-Up (#33)

Wine and Entertainment, Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Jan 29, 2022
This week presented far too many great wines to select just one. I attended dinner at a friend's elegant Georgian-styled home. It was an intimate setting; just three...

Top 100 Values under $35

Wine Deals
by Winebounty Team | Jan 24, 2022
Whenever a well-respected critic puts out a Top Values list, it always makes me giddy. Sort of like that feeling you got as a child when the music from the ice cream...

Weekly Wine Round-Up (#32)

Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Jan 18, 2022
Felipe Staiti Honor Blend 2015 A fantastic and powerful red blend (75% Malbec, 25% Cabernet Franc). Marcelo Pelleriti is a tour de force. His day job is winemaker...

Weekly Wine Round-Up (#31)

Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Jan 07, 2022
Los Frailes 1771 Monastrell 2015 No, 1771 is not the vintage! This old-vine cuvée “1771" hails from Casa Los Frailes and is a palate-pleasing palindrome. 1771...

Costco Wines (December 2021)

Wine Deals
by Winebounty Team | Dec 29, 2021
I recently stopped by Costco to return some holiday gifts; a long line that many of us endure this time of year. Of course, I decided to make the most of it and head...

Challenge Accepted! (JCB Part 3)

Wine Deals, Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Dec 14, 2021
JCB Part 1 / JCB Part 2 Cindy Martin, Wine Ambassador for The Boisset Collection, was up for the challenge:  Pull together a few reasonably priced wine...

Who is JCB? (JCB Part 2)

Wine 101, Wine and Entertainment
by Winebounty Team | Dec 14, 2021
JCB Part 1 / JCB Part 3 The next day I woke up energized and curious.  What is The Boisset Collection and who is Jean-Charles Boisset?  I discovered it is...

Cindy and Dave’s House (JCB Part 1)

Wine Deals, Wine Tasting
by Winebounty Team | Dec 14, 2021
JCB Part 2 / JCB Part 3 At the start of my daughter’s school year, we were invited to a parents’ wine tasting event.  The host was Cindy Martin and Dave...