Exploring Oregon Chardonnay
Ken The KensWineGuide.com Tasting Panel recently tasted Oregon Chardonnays blindly. We all know that Oregon is well known for its world class Pinot Noir. As a reader of KensWineGuide.com you also…
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Dessert Wines That Will Appeal To Your Sweet Tooth
After our Riesling tasting we decided to sweeten it up a bit and we moved into Dessert wines. In my opinion, there is no better way to close an evening…
Riesling Blind Tasting Results From KensWineGuide.com
We recently conducted a blind tasting of Riesling and Dessert wines. In this post we will cover the Riesling results. In addition to the blind tasting, we received several other…
Pinot Noir Panel Proves Picky With One Stand Out Wine
The KensWineGuide.com Tasting Panel blindly tasted 17 distinctive Pinot Noirs. Most of the major Pinot producing regions were represented. The only exception was there were no submissions from Oregon. Pinot…
Italian Red Wine Varietals, Blind Tasting Results
On February 29ththe KensWineGuide.com Tasting Panel met to review Italian red wine varietals. We broke the tasting into 3 distinct groups. We reviewed 5 Chianti Classicos and recommended 3 of…
Many Winners in Syrah and Shiraz Blind Tasting
The KensWineGuide.com Tasting Panel recently tasted 19 Syrah and Shiraz wines. The tasting was blind and we had 11 panelists including Kara Kukall, Beverage Manager from Legal Sea Foods. In…
Zinfandel Blind Tasting Results From KensWineGuide.com
Zinfandel is known to many as America’s red wine grape. Many Americans will celebrate this heralded grape at the ZAP Wine Festival in San Francisco at the end of this…
Sparkling Wine and Champagne Recommendations for the New Year
In November the Ken’s Wine Guide Tasting Panel tried 16 sparkling wines and Champagne. We wanted to make some recommendations for New Year’s Eve and other festive holiday celebrations. Of…
The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Blind Tasting Results Are In
Our winner for the second consecutive year was the 2004 Sebastiani “Alexander Valley” $32 Cabernet! Last year the 2003 won this event. Congrats go out to the winemaker, Mark Lyon,…
A Tale of Two Wine Tastings
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” * or at least that is how it felt as the KensWineGuide.com Tasting panel got together for 2…