Category: Recent Columns

You go to a store and see wine selling for less than $5. How is that possible? Continue reading →

October is transition time. The summer days of white wine and rosés fade as heavier fare of harvest feasts and longer nights beckon reds. Continue reading →

When you stroll down the wine walls at your wine or grocery store, it’s easy to think wine is made everywhere. It is not. Continue reading →

Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond in the movie Sideways was as passionately anti-merlot as he was passionately pro-pinot noir. Continue reading →

Biodynamic viticulture takes organic vineyard farming to a whole new existential level. Continue reading →

What does the term “organic” mean in wine making? Continue reading →

Labor Day cometh. We again face fading days of summer. We again pass through the portal between baseball, beaches, and backyard barbecues into the autumnal realm of football, falling leaves, and harvest feasts. Continue reading →

Spain! Blood in the sand on a sunny afternoon. Explosive passion. Bold, reckless courage amid urgent, masculine strums of a guitar and taunting clicks of flamenco heels. Continue reading →

Myth busters enjoy a field day with wine. Some examples: Continue reading →

Wine has so intimately intertwined with humans for more than 8,000 years we tend to think what we sip today is similar, maybe the same, as ancient Greeks and Romans and Christians tasted. Continue reading →