Ed McCarthy, Author at Wine Review Online

The Wines of Italy’s Lake Garda

by Ed McCarthy | October 12, 2010

Beautiful Lake Como in northern Lombardy–summer home of the wealthy for centuries–might be Italy’s most famous lake. But Lake Garda,...

by Ed McCarthy | September 14, 2010

Many of my favorite red wines come from Italy’s Piedmont region. They include, of course, Barolo and Barbaresco. But frankly,...

by Ed McCarthy | August 16, 2010

The Mount Etna area in northeast Sicily, the island’s coolest wine region, has suddenly become one of Italy’s most acclaimed...

by Ed McCarthy | July 21, 2010

Admittedly, I am a fanatic when it comes to wine glasses. On more than one occasion, I’ve brought my own...

by Ed McCarthy | June 23, 2010

Four years ago, one of the world’s great winemakers passed away at the age of 72, but few wine drinkers...

by Ed McCarthy | May 1, 2010

April 30, 2010 I lost a great friend. And a great winemaker. Alfredo Currado, husband of Luciana Vietti, and father...

by Ed McCarthy | April 28, 2010

Chianti is Italy’s most famous wine, and Chianti Classico is, by general consensus, its best Chianti. The region, located in...

by Ed McCarthy | March 31, 2010

Portuguese table wines, red and white, have been on the brink of making a breakthrough in the U.S. market for...

by Ed McCarthy | March 3, 2010

Thirty years ago, I couldn’t have written this column. There were no great Italian white wines. We were just discovering...

by Ed McCarthy | February 2, 2010

Oh, no, another column about Robert Mondavi! Hasn’t enough been written on him, you ask? Actually, up until a few...

by Ed McCarthy | January 5, 2010

The temperature is hovering between 10° and 24°F. in the frigid Northeast U.S. as I write this early January column,...

by Ed McCarthy | December 27, 2009

[We’ll be running our contributors’ picks for the best wine performances for 2009 on a dialy basis through the end...