Category: Recent Columns

If you decided to be devotee of decanting after past two weeks of paeans to the practice, some notes.
Decanting works in any container made of inert material (think glass) that holds more than bottle you are decanting. Best decanters allow for considerable exposure to air, so use one that holds about twice as much as your bottle. Continue reading →

Many factors affect wine prices. Barrel cost and berry quality.Parker scores. Marketing mavens. Winery hubris. Take your pick. Continue reading →

Your impression of wine involves many things, some valid, some irrational. Continue reading →

All is not what it claims to be in the Chinese wine market. Continue reading →

Second week of wacko wine descriptors. The obvious: some of this is concocted by wine writers to stand out from the “juicy, jammy, red and black fruits” cognoscente. Continue reading →

Many wine taste and smell terms are easy to understand, delicious to imagine. Continue reading →

Most of us spend our entire wine lives pouring from three bottle sizes. Continue reading →

Champagne and other sparkling wines shine at Christmas and New Years. Today, answers to some merry sparkling questions. Continue reading →

More wine trivia to abet bets and sustain snobbery. All numbers approximate averages: Continue reading →

Insider numbers to help you win wine bets, show off at wine bars, or one-up siblings. Weighted to Napa, the U.S. premier wine producer. Continue reading →