Last week, I ventured from Halleck Vineyard Winery and Wine Tasting Room in Sonoma Valley to the Sculptor Garden Room of the historic National Arts Club in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park to pour our California wines for a room full of artists, philanthropists, and musicians. It was my second Sonoma Wine Education Seminar at the club,…

Last night, I had the honor of pouring my wines for the team at Gramercy Tavern, a Michelin Star Restaurant in New York City that has been serving our wines for over a decade.

For a winemaker, there are few experiences more gratifying than sharing varietals and vintages with professionals who understand the nuances of food,…

For most of my career, I’ve talked about wine through the lens of flavor, food, and family. But over the last few years, something shifted for me. I began to ask a deeper question: What if wine could be more than a drink? What if it could be a spiritual tool?

That question led me down a path I didn’t expect….

For anyone planning a trip to Sonoma or simply curious about the wine tasting experience, award-winning winemaker Ross Halleck of Halleck Vineyard in Sebastopol, answers your most pressing wine tasting questions.

Drawing on years of expertise in Sonoma’s celebrated Russian River Valley, Ross offers practical tips and insider knowledge for a memorable tasting experience.

Ross Halleck on the deck of our Wine Lodge surrounded by our estate Pinot Noir Vineyard in West Sonoma County….

In this Sonoma wine tasting video with Ross Halleck, vintner at Halleck Vineyard, and Harris Miner, the winery’s director of wine education, share tasting notes on their latest releases, offering viewers an informative look at the distinctive varietals produced from Sonoma County’s acclaimed American Viticultural Areas (AVAs).

The pair guide us through the wines with careful attention to the nuances of each,…

Wine is dynamic.

Euphemisms include elixir of the gods, social lubricant, poetry in a bottle, and (penned by Ernest Hemingway) the most civilized thing in the world. Less romantic monikers describe it as glogg, plonk, Jesus juice, and porch-pounder.

Wine is rife with evocative metaphor. It can be dry, flabby, cloying, chewy, racy, or a fruit bomb….