Four years ago, one of the world’s great winemakers passed away at the age of 72, but few wine drinkers except a handful...
Remembering Vietti’s Alfredo Currado
April 30, 2010 I lost a great friend. And a great winemaker. Alfredo Currado, husband of Luciana Vietti, and father...
Chianti Classico at the Crossroads
Chianti is Italy’s most famous wine, and Chianti Classico is, by general consensus, its best Chianti. The region,...
The Time Has Come for Portuguese Wines
Portuguese table wines, red and white, have been on the brink of making a breakthrough in the U.S. market for many years now,...
Iconic Italian White Wines
Thirty years ago, I couldn’t have written this column. There were no great Italian white wines. We were just...
Robert Mondavi’s Enduring Legacy
Oh, no, another column about Robert Mondavi! Hasn’t enough been written on him, you ask? Actually, up until a...
Italian Reds with Italian Food–A Perfect Marriage
The temperature is hovering between 10° and 24°F. in the frigid Northeast U.S. as I write this early January column, and...
Ed McCarthy’s Picks for Producer and Wine of the Year, 2009
[We'll be running our contributors' picks for the best wine performances for 2009 on a dialy basis through the end of the year,...
So Many Great Champagnes, So Little Time!
It’s December, the one month of the year that Champagne houses make about half of their yearly sales--at least in the U.S,...
Battle of the Bubbles, cont.
I would like to weigh in with my opinion on the controversy regarding the washing of sparkling wine glasses recently raised by...
Ed McCarthy’s Picks for Thanksgiving
[WRO Readers: We'll be publishing Thanksgiving wine recommendations from our WRO contributors in this space almost every...
The Legendary Williams Selyem Pinot Noirs
Burt Williams was a newspaper printer in San Francisco. His friend, Ed Selyem, was an accountant/ wine buyer in...