Ed McCarthy, Author at Wine Review Online

A New Look at Two Piedmontese Wineries

by Ed McCarthy | January 5, 2021

Italy’s Piedmont region is in northwest Italy, with France at its western border and Switzerland to the north. Its main...

by Ed McCarthy | January 5, 2021

People buy and drink a good deal of Champagne during the Holiday Season, culminating on New Year’s Eve. About half...

by Ed McCarthy | January 5, 2021

Among the Spanish immigrants that settled in Chile during the 18th an 19th centuries were the Basques. The Echenique family,...

by Ed McCarthy | January 5, 2021

A few weeks ago, I drank a magnificent white French wine that I had not tasted or known about before...

by Ed McCarthy | September 22, 2020

For a few decades, I have been writing about wines, concentrating especially on French wines. Hence, I was quite surprised...

by Ed McCarthy | May 9, 2020

Yes, Zinfandel’s ancestors did come from southern Europe. But in its present form, Zinfandel is truly an American wine. And...

by Ed McCarthy | October 30, 2019

Nebbiolo is one of the greatest red wine grape varieties in the world. Wines made from Nebbiolo can be found...

by Ed McCarthy | October 2, 2019

Although I have been buying and writing about all sorts of wines throughout my life–and I certainly own enough wines...

by Ed McCarthy | September 4, 2019

Italy’s white wines have improved so much during the past few decades that today I believe they are among the...

by Ed McCarthy | August 6, 2019

The 11 Finger Lakes, located in western New York State, south of huge Lake Ontario, are a source of surprisingly...

by Ed McCarthy | July 10, 2019

Summer weather does not signal to me that I stop drinking red wines–it just changes the type of red wines...

by Ed McCarthy | May 15, 2019

We can all look forward to a great vintage of Port–or Porto, as it is officially called now–reaching the United...