Category: Seasonal Recommendations

Christmas Day tomorrow. For many, there will be wine along with joy, family togetherness, presents, heaps of food. Continue reading →

Fifteen days ‘till Christmas. If you are a disciplined, organized woman you may be wrapping up your shopping and just need a couple of items to complete your list. Continue reading →

Today is year’s biggest wine sales day at your wine store. Continue reading →

Even people who don’t usually do wine do wine at Thanksgiving. Continue reading →

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Labor Day falls this year on the first day of September. It can’t get any earlier, which means it won’t be fall for three weeks and we will experience the longest, most summery Labor Day possible. Continue reading →

Summertime and the living is easy. It also is really hot. What is a wine drinker to do? Continue reading →

Fourth of July wine suggestions are fraught with patriotic paradoxes.

You can go historic and recommend Madeira from the Portuguese island. Madeira was wine Betsy Ross allegedly sipped sewing Old Glory, but Madeira is heavy, sweet, and high alcohol. Not suitable for the heat of patriotic parties. Continue reading →

Wine-inspired gifts for Father’s Day tempt you to gather gimmicks destined for the “God only knows what it’s for” drawer. Please, resist that seduction. Continue reading →

Mother’s Day wine columns grow more difficult each year. Lilting riffs about sweet, fruity libations because “little woman” isn’t into real wine are so baroquely foolish you venture there today only in parody. Continue reading →