William Pollard Jr | aka: Wild 4 Washington Wine

Over the weekend I was tweeting with my Australian friend @nessaussie, a Sommelier in Perth, about wine. We were discussing the Swan Valley of Western Australia. This morning I woke thinking about the wine we featured on the September #WineMuse Podcast. It was then that I realized I had not posted my tasting notes for the Hope Estate 2010 Shiraz " The Ripper "...fruit sourced from the Geographe Region of Western Australia. *Podcast Note : "You Say Syrah, I Say Shiraz (& To Spit or Swallow Wine)" Y ou can listen to our discussion of this wine on Minstrel and Muse Audio Art Magazine and our #WineMuse podcast . The show has a special interview with Keith Pilgrim of Terra Blanca Winery . Western Australia is the largest state in Australia. The Margaret River Valley Wine growing region is centered in the cooler south-western tip of the state of Western Australia. This area produces less than 5% of the country's wine (but excels in quality I'm to...

Taste Along with Linda and William. Join us Thursday, February 6th at 8:00 pm EST/5:00 pm PST for our first virtual tasting podcast of the Terra Blanca Arch Terrace Red Mountain 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon.   Taste with us live - here's the link to the show. In partnership with Minstrel and Muse Audio Art Magazine - we are hosting a live virtual wine tasting. This will be the first of many wine tastings hosted by Minstrel and Muse. Grab a bottle of the featured wine and taste along with Linda of Minstrel and Muse and William of Wild 4 Washington Wine . If you cannot join us for the live tasting, you can always taste along with our recorded podcast show. Taste this wine online with us on February 6th.

More than a memorable Red Mountain wine. Terra Blanca 2006 Onyx. Recently I had a significant wine moment with a bottle of wine from Terra Blanca, the 2006 ONYX, Terra Blanca Estate Vineyard. This wine was a gift from a friend. A gift I greatly appreciate. There was no special occasion for opening this wine, it just happened to be the bottle I selected. Perhaps it is best that I was not anticipating anything out of this bottle, consequently, my experience was all the more noteworthy. On pulling the cork, the room was instantly enveloped in the aroma of black berries, fresh wild berries, ripe ready to eat berries, berry pie and berry cobbler. The moment hung suspended as I was transported back in time, memories of childhood, my grandmother and summers spent in Aberdeen, Washington cascaded over me. As I poured from the bottle into my glass, I recalled my grandmothers white 1971 Monte Carlo, with blue vinyl top. You could tell she enjoyed driving that car; we drove all over Aber...