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¡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,...
Vintage Madeira
Why am I writing about a wine that is quite rare nowadays, and no longer the great value that it was a few decades ago? I am...
Cabernet Sauvignon in Montalcino
Col D’Orcia (Sant’Antimo DOC, Tuscany, Italy) Cabernet Sauvignon “Olmaia” 2015 (Taub Family Selections,...
Quarantine Chronicles: Pandemic Perils, Pounds and the Resurgence of the Alt Beverage
It seems today that we could be about to come out of the past year of quarantine isolation and all of the things that have come with...
The Other Cabernet’s Time to Shine
Cabernet Franc, cultivated over the last 700 years, has recently become newsworthy. Not splashy, front-page stuff, but trends of...
Barolo 2015, Vol. II: Communes of Castiglione Falletto, Monforte d’Alba, Novello and Serralunga d’Alba
Experienced wine buyers around the world know to be wary of general hype of vintages from Europe, largely because expectations are largely...
South Africa: Past the Thinking, and On to Drinking
As I observed in my column here on Wine Review Online last month, “South Africa has now clearly joined the ranks of the...
Recognizing the Wine World’s Fastest-Rising Star, with 25 Years of Retrospect
I began writing about wine in 1993, first for The Washington Times and then, eight months later, for The Washington Post, where I stayed...