Category: Seasonal Recommendations

Valentine’s Day is a smorgasbord of schmaltz, guilt trip, flowers, chocolate, kitschy cards, and romance. We’ve got wine for that. Continue reading “Valentine wine” →

Sparkling wines/Champagne are wonderful all the time, but New Year’s and weddings are when most people twist wire cages and pop mushroom corks. Continue reading “New Years” →

Your family Christmas meal is a great time for wine, but it is not a great time for great wine. Continue reading “Christmas pours” →

You celebrate wine. Family members grudgingly acquiesce you know more about it than they do. They anoint you to select and, if they are deviously clever, to buy wine for a festive family meal. This is the season for such repasts and such familial strategies. Continue reading “Feast food pairings” →

Surprise! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. You were assigned to provide wine for your family’s feast, but you did not give it a thought until now. Continue reading “Thanksgiving wines 2 of 2” →

Thanksgiving is the festive family feast where even people who don’t buy or drink wine very often buy and drink wine. Today’s column is for you. Continue reading “Thanksgiving wines 1 of 2” →

Real Halloween horrors are not faux-frightening costumes or campy wine plays—Vampire Vineyards, Poizin Zin, or Casillero de Diablo (“Cellar of the Devil”)—tonight’s real horrors are bags of treacly treats that will generate manic sugar highs. Be afraid, be very afraid. Continue reading “Halloween 2012” →

Two months of summer are gone, one month remains. Labor Day looms in dozen days as final hot holiday. Continue reading “Labor Day summer sippers” →

Wine suggestions for July 4th are laden with pairing perils. Continue reading “July 4th hot dog” →