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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....
Bordeaux 2022 from Bottle, and a Renewed Recommendation for 2023
Having tasted so far some 250 bottles of Bordeaux 2022 from bottle to this point, I recall what I had written after tasting the wines from...
A First Look at the 2022 Bordeaux Vintage
A new “Vintage of the Century” from Bordeaux is nearly upon us. The 2022 Bordeaux crop has garnered high praise from the wine press, and...