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Chill Out This Fall with Cool-Climate Chilean Syrah
Summer may not be officially over just yet, but cooler temperatures, falling leaves, and pumpkin spice ubiquity are looming on the...
Quality Mexican Wine? Surely, You Jest?
Indeed, I do not. During a week-long family vacation to Mexico City over Christmas last year, we drank a range of intriguing and...
A Look at the History of Our Modern Wine World
The wine industry has changed a great deal in my lifetime. I did not become interested in fine wine until the late 1970’s and was quite...
Super Slovenian
Being aboard an Airbus A-320 in business class this past June from Paris to Ljubljana to discover a new wine in Slovenia was fun, but not...
California’s Axis of Sparkling Wines
In wine, as is the case in most everything in life, there is a standard, and then there is everything within the same category that is...
Thoughts Regarding Wine’s So-Called Decline
Given that we’re meeting on a wine website, I’m sure you’ve seen or heard reports of a recent downturn in wine consumption. Most of...
A Wine-Tasting Adventure through the Gorges of the Lower Salmon River
Several years ago, I stumbled upon an article in Food & Wine magazine by the esteemed Ray Isle titled "How to Pair Wine with...
WINE WITH…Spaghetti Pure & Simple
WINE WITH…Spaghetti Pure & Simple I know, I know—pasta preparations aren’t usually categorized as the type of exciting foods one might...
Decoding European Sparkling Wine Labels
Wine labels contain a lot of information. Some of this information is nearly universal including the producer’s name, a...