Last night I had the opportunity to taste, side by side, a wine sourced from the famed Cannubi Vineyard in Barolo and a Barolo Normale,
Wine Review: Dow’s Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2016
If you think of Ruby Port as a sweetish, dense, unpleasantly heavy wine, this LBV from Dow will disabuse you of that notion. This is
Great Wines and Transcendence
I greatly admire Eric Asimov’s wine writing, but his recent column in the New York Times about what makes a great wine badly misses the
Terroir Reflects Culture as Well as Geography
Andrew Jefford’s recent post reports on his disorientation at encountering a Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux from Chateau Le Rey sold in a slope-shouldered bottle instead
You’ll Taste Raspberry and Vanilla with Just a Hint of Arrogance
Is it weird or helpful when servers and sommeliers tell you what a wine tastes like? Norm Roby thinks it’s creepy: I also found it
Wine Review: Hillinger Blaufränkisch Leithaberg DAC 2016
Blaufränkisch (also known as Lemberger) is one of Austria’s principle red grapes. It is little known in the U.S. which is a shame because this
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 