Wine for Weddings: The Toast

January is wedding planning season. As you may already know, wedding Champagne can be truly awful. Don't offend your guests with sweet, gold, fat-bubbled juic..

January 10, 2020 in Wine Varieties

How to Give the Gift of Wine Without Really Trying

The holidays are around the corner. If you haven’t bought your wine-loving friend a gift yet, you might be searching for solutions. Here are some ideas so you..

December 4, 2019 in Wine Reviews

German Wine Cooperatives To Be Thankful For

This past September, I visited a number of small, medium, and large German wineries in Baden, Württemberg, and the Pfalz regions. There is a false belief in t..

November 27, 2019 in Wine Reviews

Last Minute Wine Ideas for Thanksgiving

OK, so you know it’s late to be just now looking for wines for Thanksgiving. What were you thinking? Well, never fear, finding a great wine for Thanksgiving i..

November 25, 2019 in Wine & Food

Reconsidering Pinot Gris

Eventually someone will ask, ”What's the wine that got you into wine?” Then come the phenomenal answers of ancient Brunellos discovered on semesters abroad an..

November 21, 2019 in Wine Varieties

Bonarda: The Other Argentine Wine

Talk long enough about Bonarda and you'll hear all the keywords of ill-repute. High yield. Simple. Jug. Bulk. Once Argentina's most widely planted variety (it..

November 1, 2019 in Wine Varieties

The Very Best of Blaufränkisch Wine

October 18, 2019 in Wine Reviews

A Vote for Madeira

October 16, 2019 in The Wine Lifestyle

It's Wine Gift Season

Get ahead of the holiday gift-giving game. Black Friday is so 1995. We've gathered an array of wine-related gifts for your consideration. If you're still a Bl..

October 11, 2019 in The Wine Lifestyle

5 Wines Worth Cellaring

Building a cellar isn’t always about laying down the most expensive wines on earth. It should also be about laying down wines that will improve with age, deve..

October 8, 2019 in

Consider Napa’s Other Cab

It is a chilly, sunny February afternoon in Napa Valley. Tasting rooms are packed and wine routes are busy, much busier than I remember from previous visits...

October 4, 2019 in Wine Reviews

7 Wine Emergencies (And How to Fix Them in a Pinch)

There are drinking problems -- those that require soul-searching and tearful interventions -- and then there are drinking problems: broken and stubborn corks,..

September 24, 2019 in The Wine Lifestyle

Six Key Wine Categories for Fall

There are an infinite number of wine categories. The debate over how they are defined will be endless. These six categories are broad, general descriptions th..

August 30, 2019 in The Wine Lifestyle

The Best Rose in the U S of A

With August in full swing, we are still looking to quench our rosé thirst. In fact that thirst might even stretch into September and beyond - though as the su..

August 22, 2019 in Wine Reviews

Summer Grilling Whites

Grilled chicken and seafood recipes are summer staples, inviting you into a rich world of white and rose wines.

July 25, 2019 in Wine Reviews

Red Wines for Summer

Summer is a the season for footwear-optional backyard parties rife with Solo cups, white wine and rosé. Don't leave your red wine in the cellar. There are a b..

July 10, 2019 in Wine Varieties

5 Iconic Wines to Celebrate the 4th of July

With the celebration of our Independence right around the corner, we are all set to celebrate. This is after all one of the great parties of the year for of u..

July 3, 2019 in Wine Reviews

What is magic in a glass?

Some twenty five years ago, during an informal dinner in a local tavern (tasca in Spanish) in Jerez de la Frontera, my host summoned the owner, “Paco, bring u..

June 14, 2019 in Wine Reviews

Snazzy Sandwich & Wine Pairings

I must have been under ten years old when I pulled out the family encyclopedia to look up ‘sandwich’. It was the 1967 edition of Britannica, acquired by my mo..

June 7, 2019 in Wine Reviews

Two Classic Faves, One Team

Start your meal with Grauburgunder and end it with a right-bank red: Two of the world’s most loved wine regions have teamed up to spread the word about their ..

June 7, 2019 in Wine Reviews