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Exploring Beyond the Familiar: Discover Unconventional Italian Grapes
Perhaps the best and most understandable way to approach your personal wine education is to become familiar with the grape varieties used...
Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato: Another Rare Gem from Italy’s Treasure Trove
Everybody who has tried to learn about wine has learned it is humbling in its complexity. Those who try for years usually become more...
Montalcino’s Poggio di Sotto: Still in Good Hands
There’s always a certain trepidation when a highly regarded “cult” winery changes hands, especially when a larger company snatches it up....
Chablis: Burgundy’s Holdout Source for Great Whites at Reasonable Prices
Chablis, although a part of Burgundy, has not yet received the memo that the wines should be priced in the stratosphere like their more...
Let Me Tell You a Story About Wine Tariffs
We’ll start back on April 12, 2019. A notice is posted in the Federal Register: The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is beginning...
Cutting Back on Alcohol Intake with Classic, Lower-Alcohol Wines
Last month, the U.S. Surgeon General delivered an advisory that identified “alcohol use as a leading preventable cause of cancer in the...
Kopke Ports as a Portal into Porto
Maybe you haven’t tasted Port for years, or maybe it’s something that you regularly pair with a roaring fire in the den during the winter...
Platinum Award Winners from the 2025 San Diego International Challenge
Everybody who cares about wine knows that sales have dipped recently, and among the possible causes that have been hypothesized, I know...
Don’t Worry – Wine Is a Survivor
Short of a return to legal Prohibition in the U.S., I don’t think there is much the wine industry needs to worry about over the long term....