Category: Wine & Grapes

What a wonderful time: summer heat is past; great harvest holidays approach. Time to contemplate one of the greatest and most unusual wines in the world: Madeira, an ideal wine to enjoy at the warm, fuzzy end of a feast or while snuggling in a favorite blanket as the first chills of winter whisper outside. Continue reading →

Viticultural science may speed things up, but winemaking nuances move at their own pace even if Texas producers want ‘em to get-a-goin’ now. Continue reading →

Most of us will never taste Château d’Yquem, world standard in Sauternes—the unfortified sweet white wine from the Graves region of Bordeaux. Continue reading →

When a Bordeaux grape and South American terroir tumbled into passionate embrace, Argentinean vintners gave birth to an international legit hit in malbec. Continue reading →

Pinotage (pinno-tahj ), the distinctive South African wine, is a work in progress. Continue reading →

With summer beginning today, terrific summer wine you may not have heard about, and a wine even your friends who don’t think they like wine may enjoy. Continue reading →

Asked to name the top grape in Argentina, surely you boldly bellowed “bonarda!” Continue reading →

Baby Boomer? You probably got your white wine initiation with French Colombard. Continue reading →

Wine black humor: “What is difference between a case of Syrah and a case of pneumonia? You can get rid of a case of pneumonia.” Continue reading →

Waggish wine wisdom: Gamay grapes are wine world’s simplest red grapes and make the only white wine that happens to be red. Continue reading →