The California Wine Festival returned to Santa Barbara to showcase hundreds of different wines from across the state.

California makes many outstanding red wines. But one grape often gets overlooked when it comes to great wines from the Golden State: merlot. This particular grape just might be the most ...

California red wine offers a breadth of different styles and varieties. And there is far more to California red wine than what you'll find in Napa and Sonoma. Here are off-the-beaten-path ...

Tasting Notes - Anyone who thinks all California Merlot wines are soft and mellow needs to taste this intense, red wine. While not a pure Merlot wine (it’s 80 percent Merlot, 16 percent Cabernet ...

With wildfires raging in California again, my Wines of the Week today highlight two excellent bottles from the Golden State, ... My red Wine of the Week, the Mt. Brave Merlot 2015, ...