Given wine’s history, you’d think best way to pull cork was long-ago solved. Not so. Continue reading
Category: Recent Columns
Wine-food festival—San Angelo
If you enjoy good wine and good parties and good times, next week will be a good week. Continue reading
Expensive wine
Higher price, better wine, right? Not that simple. Continue reading
Moving wine
You’ve done well. Promotions, happy wife, darling kids, a 107-bottle wine refrigerator stocked with trophies. Continue reading
Easter wine
When Christians feast in celebration of Christ’s resurrection and Jews commemorate the passing over of the 10th plague, they traditionally serve ham or lamb. Continue reading
Oak in wine
Oak is makeup for wine. Restrained oak enhances beauty. Spread oak with a trowel, palates howl. Continue reading
USA wine emergence
Budbreak approaches in America’s warming vineyards. Let rejoicing begin as vines return to life. Continue reading
Amphora wine
Maybe we’ve made this whole wine making thing way too complicated in the 21st century. Continue reading
Aging wine
If you are a wine lover, it is likely you dream of owning your own wine cellar. Continue reading
Rodeo and wine
Old school wisdom asserted rodeo begets beer belches and whiskey shots. Times change. Continue reading