Month: December 2009

For beverage so elegant, it is ironic optimum way to open champagne is pedestrian. Continue reading →

Are you pressed to find last-minute, perfect holiday gift for a wine lover or developing wine appreciator? Ideas: Continue reading →

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Bing Crosby ringing in your ears. Yuletide carols sung by a choir, folks dressed up like Eskimos—Christmas, season for loving nostalgia. Continue reading →

To decant or not to decant. That is the question. Is it nobler of the vine to suffer the slings and arrows of tannic tightness, or to take up arms against it with a sea of aeration, and—by so opposing—soften them? Continue reading →

Which is more important: grape or place the grape grows? Depends on who you ask and how much argument you want. Continue reading →