Opening a Bottle

You may have heard in the news last week that Paris was experiencing historic floods. With the Seine River reaching 20 feet over its banks,...

Rosé is an easy sell this time of year. It is impossibly refreshing, requires little thought on a hot summer day,...

Let’s get this over with up front: I do not have the bank account nor the time to understand Burgundy. Don’t...

The Final Part in a Series That Has Nothing to Do with Wine ... Rather, How We Commemorate Life

Six Wines. Three Head-to-Head Battles. Everyone's a Winner.

Situated in the northwestern corner of Italy, the province of Piedmont is heaven on earth for foodies. White truffles, hazelnuts, braised...

Few landscapes trigger my imagination more than the Langhe Hills of Piedmont, in northwestern Italy. I spent a week there in...

Playing Goldilocks with Late-Bottled Vintage, 10-Year Tawny and 20-Year Tawny Ports

Why do we buy the wine we buy? What are our motivations in selecting this bottle instead of that bottle? Sometimes...

Arguably France's finest terroir for Syrah.

Looking at a wine atlas map of France, it would seem that nearly the entire eastern portion of the country is buried under vines....

When it comes to drinking at lunch, the United States doesn’t have much of a wine culture. In fact, you could even...

You cannot divorce some wines from the context of their landscape; at least not if you’ve visited the landscape and had...

Sauvignon Blanc hits all the right buttons. Or all the wrong ones. Or maybe somewhere in between. Wow, what an authoritative...

Happy spring. After the winter I’ve had, I’m happy to embrace the new season and rediscover my backyard patio. Say, what’s that...