Alsace, located in northeastern France adjacent to the Rhine River and Germany, has spent the last several hundred years as part...
Alsace: Home to a Great Riesling Producer
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Ed McCarthy
Vallformosa: An Exciting Brut Cava Debuts in the U.S.
Spanish wine producers have been watching the amazing success of Italian Proseccos in the U.S., and are taking action to get a...
Alto Adige: Italy’s Northern Gem
Italy is an amazing country in many ways, and this is definitely true when you consider its wines. I am intrigued by how...
Chianti: Still Tuscany’s Flagship Wine?
A few days ago, a friend asked me, “Are there still any true Chianti wines left?” I told him that there were,...
The White Wines I Drink
“Why am I always running out of white wines?” I asked myself the other day while making another trip to the...
Codorníu, Queen of the Cavas
In 1872, Josep Raventós of the Codorníu Raventós family from Catalonia made Spain’s first bottle of...
Insignia from Joseph Phelps Vineyards
The early 1970s was an exciting time for wineries emerging in Napa Valley, such as Chateau Montelena, Stag’s Leap Wine...
The Wines of the Lubéron
When discussing the wines of the Lubéron AOC district, the most obvious question to address is, “Where is the...
Super-Tuscan Wines, Featuring Ornellaia…Super Indeed
About 35 years ago, a new category of Italian red wines emerged in Tuscany. Chianti was selling poorly in the 1970s,...
The U.S. East Coast versus West Coast Palate
Is there a difference in the palates of wine drinkers living on the East Coast of the U.S. as opposed to those west of the...
Drinking Mature Wine
There are two kinds of wine: the ones that you drink as soon as you buy them, and the ones that you should save until they...
Prosecco Today…and a Special Prosecco
The first time that I can remember drinking Prosecco was in Tuscany, over 25 years ago. It was a warm summer afternoon,...