Category: Recent Columns

Continuing exploration of wine terms; today—more descriptors. Continue reading →

Over the next months, the column will intermittently visit wine lingo. This can be particularly helpful during final two months of the year when people indifferent to wine perk up for family feasts and holiday bonhomie. Continue reading →

Some suggestions if you plan to pour wine at your Halloween party. Continue reading →

Cabernet sauvignon is the progeny of two grapes—one inky black, the other white and fabulous with food. Their child became the most successful red wine grape of all time. Continue reading →

Who has not had fleeting fantasy of grabbing grocery store grapes and taking a stab at winemaking? Continue reading →

Labels are baffling barriers to being comfortable with Old World wines. Continue reading →

You want a quality red wine at nice price. Continue reading →

Chardonnay is grape people love to hate and hate to love. Continue reading →

With Oktoberfest belching to life this Saturday, wine remarks may be drowned out in the clink of mugs (Maßkrugs if you are a Teutonic purist) and blasts of Oompah bands. Continue reading →

Science shocker: pinot grapes are an army of clones. Continue reading →