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Wine Tipping Jan. 16, 2024
Dining out recently has become far more expensive than it was before COVID-19 closed restaurants, ca... Read More
Decanting Wine Jan. 09, 2024
All wines are "alive" — at least in the sense that they start out when they're young tasting f... Read More
Whites Over Reds Dec. 19, 2023
If you're planning to have a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the new year, chances are pretty good tha... Read More
Beaujolais Dec. 06, 2023
One of the world's forgotten wines, but a delightful diversion, is Beaujolais nouveau — that f... Read More
Sparkling Wine Nov. 21, 2023
It's one of the world's great wine paradoxes: a delicate, subtle, food-oriented wine calling for int... Read More
Wine and Food Diversity Nov. 14, 2023
True wine lovers adore diversity in their wines as much as they love diversity in their foods. Yet t... Read More
Zinfatuated Oct. 31, 2023
Clumsy, foppish, lugubrious, doleful, gloom-imposing. These are just a few of the terms that I had e... Read More
Sweet Red Wines Oct. 24, 2023
All things change, and many of the changes may be seen only in retrospect. Some issues are in struct... Read More
Big Bottles Oct. 18, 2023
One of my worst days as a wine writer came about 10 years ago when I tried to lift a 12-bottle box o... Read More
Euro Versus Cali Oct. 10, 2023
California wine is basically all about sunlight and softness; most European wines are all about clou... Read More
Beaujolais Nouveau Oct. 03, 2023
Decades ago, if you said "Beaujolais nouveau" in a crowded theater, you might create a panic: Half t... Read More
Sauvignon Blanc Is Hot Sep. 26, 2023
In spite of the fact that there is so much wine in the world that wineries everywhere don't know wha... Read More
Heavy Bottles Aug. 29, 2023
One of the worst trends in winemaking over the last 25 years is the ever-greater use of ultraheavy b... Read More
Bargain Wine Shopping Aug. 08, 2023
We've all faced this same dilemma: staring at a retail wine shop wall of wine bottles that carry lab... Read More
Wine Terminology Jul. 25, 2023
Beets, new-mown grass, sage, olives, gardenia, petroleum, strawberries. These are just some of the ... Read More
