Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

He also authored "A Sense of Place, a history of Napa Valley's Niebaum-Coppola / Rubicon Winery" (foreword by Francis Ford Coppola) that received the Versailles Award for Best American Wine Book ...