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Sicily: Front and Center for 2020
My year ahead will include a major immersion in the wines of Sicily, which have improved so broadly and rapidly that this fascinating...
Oh, Sherry: A Primer on a Spanish Classic
When was the last time you considered sherry? Not Sherry, the friendly woman down the street who likes to garden, but the style of...
Northern Rhône Sweet Spot: Saint-Joseph
Fine Syrah from France’s Northern Rhône Valley is one of the world’s greatest wines, but the sad fact is that not much...
Middleweight Greats
In any category that includes lots of different things, those falling in the middle often get overlooked, simply because they don’t...
Terroir is Alive and Well in Barolo
With three wines, all made from Nebbiolo grape, the Marchese di Barolo, a top producer in Piedmont, shows the importance of terroir. ...
Rediscovering Lugana
I take pride in knowing Italian wines fairly well, but if you had asked me my feelings about Lugana until quite recently, I now realize...
Zig When They Zag: Nebbiolo and Arneis from Roero
Everybody who knows anything about investing knows to run contrary to the crowd: Sell when everybody else is buying and buy when...
¡Salud!
“It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, the vegetables and other foods that fill your...
Oregon Exemplars: Stoller Wine Group
Stoller Wine Group, based Dayton, Oregon in the Willamette Valley, includes Stoller Family Estate, Chehalem Winery, Chemistry, History,...