Category: Recent Columns

If wine is in your Father’s Day forecast, guidelines on what to pour based on your father’s personality. Continue reading →

You may notice some wines announce they are kosher, sometimes, kosher mevushal. What does that mean? Continue reading →

You can have too much of a good thing. Just ask the wine industry. Continue reading →

Online wine sales, from online wine stores and wineries, increased the past decade-plus. Then came COVID. Online wine sales mushroomed. Continue reading →

Winery tasting rooms are closed. A terrible blow, especially for smaller wineries. Some, however, believe the COVID crisis could reshape the industry for the better. Continue reading →

As sheltering-in-place, face masks, and social distancing save lives, COVID likely forever alters “normal life.” Notes from the world of wine and alcohol: Continue reading →

Mother’s Day enjoys a rich history. Spring festivals in ancient Greece and Rome celebrated mommy goddesses. Europeans celebrated moms beginning in the 16th century. Continue reading →

Rosé has been the fastest growing wine category in the U.S. for several years. According to Nielsen, off-premise sales of rosé in January 2016 were $151 million. In January 2020, $576 million-plus. More than a 280 percent increase. Continue reading →

Bitter news wine lovers must face: wine has carbohydrates. Carbohydrates produce calories. If you contemplate dieting, counting carbs/calories is part of the deal. Continue reading →

Visit with almost any wine vine grower and they will tell you climate change is indisputably real. And it is both a bad thing and a good thing—depending on where your vineyard is located. Continue reading →