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Ten Tips for De-Stressing Wine: A Different Approach for Encouraging American Consumption Resumption
I’ve been working in multiple capacities related to wine for three decades, and I can’t remember a time when nearly as many people were as...
An Evening with the Wines of Napa’s Historic Sequoia Grove Winery
A few weeks ago, I was invited to share a meal and taste wines with Napa Valley winery Sequoia Grove's winemaker Jesse Fox at eminent...
Bottles Worth Discovering: The Wines of Bulgaria
One of the greatest joys of wine appreciation is stumbling upon exceptional bottles from unexpected places. Venturing into unfamiliar...
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has Finally Found Itself with the 2021 Vintage
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, a Tuscan Sangiovese-based DOCG, just like Chianti Classico and Brunello di Montalcino, has never had the...
Assessing Bordeaux from the 2015 Vintage, 10 Years On
Thanks to the London-based Bordeaux Index wine trading company, I tasted top-flight Bordeaux from the 2015 vintage, “10 years on.”...
Madeira: So Much More than Sweet
Madeira brings different images to mind for different people. Some see a beautiful island off the coast of Morocco, while others conjure...
Hanging Out with the Bourgeoisie
Like a lot of young Boomers, by the 1970s I was just getting into the discovery of fine wines. This awakening led me in short order to...
What I’ve Been Drinking Lately: Petit Vin, and All the Better for It
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had occasion to “talk trade”—the wine trade, that is—with longtime friends of mine in the suburban retail...
Aslina Wines and the Woman Behind Them: Ntsiki Biyela’s Trailblazing Path
Ntsiki Biyela shattered barriers as one of South Africa's first Black female winemakers—a groundbreaking achievement in a country where...