Category: Recent Columns

Drink enough red wine and you are going to spill red wine. On clothes, tablecloths, rugs, maybe all of the above in one big, dramatic cataclysm. Continue reading →

Sauvignon blanc ranks as world class wine after once being associated with poorboy plonk or snooty French names no one understood. Long, strange journey.
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Labor Day is “so-long-to-summer” portal, although veteran Texans know hot days will not end soon. Continue reading →

An effete wine server ostentatiously extracts the cork and pretentiously presents it to you. Now what? Continue reading →

A wine bottle’s foil (or faux foil) cap is an almost-anachronism. Continue reading →

We should have known it would come to this. With growing emphasis on organic farming and terroir (vineyard environment, soil, climate), obsessive wine/food afficionados would do dirt tastings. Continue reading →

Today, Americans collectively drink more wine than any other nation, an epochal change that began three generations ago. In addition, we are more sophisticated about what we drink. Continue reading →

Fine wine makers have mixed feelings about supermarket chains selling their wine. Continue reading →

Random wine facts to calm timorous tipplers and furnish factoids to help you impress friends. Continue reading →

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