Ed McCarthy, Author at Wine Review Online

Two Great Champagne Houses: Gosset and Henriot

by Ed McCarthy | May 25, 2016

While I was teaching–in an earlier life–I used to work part-time in a local wine shop, to feed my growing...

by Ed McCarthy | April 27, 2016

The term “Icon” is badly over-used nowadays–in the wine world and elsewhere. But the Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon that Heitz...

by Ed McCarthy | March 30, 2016

Don’t you get tired of seeing the latest “elite” California wine producer debut its brand-new wine at a retail price...

by Ed McCarthy | March 2, 2016

Some of my Burgundy-loving friends do not accept the idea that excellent Pinot Noirs wines can be made outside of...

by Ed McCarthy | February 7, 2016

In 1999, Michael Mondavi, his wife Isabel, and their two adult children, Rob and Dina, purchased Animo Vineyard in the...

by Ed McCarthy | February 4, 2016

Alsace, located in northeastern France adjacent to the Rhine River and Germany, has spent the last several hundred years as...

by Ed McCarthy | January 11, 2016

Every December a group of New York area wine writers gather to taste some currently released Champagnes. On this occasion,...

by Ed McCarthy | December 9, 2015

Last week, the Wine Media Guild, a wine writers’ group in New York, enjoyed their Holiday tasting/luncheon accompanied by 26...

by Ed McCarthy | November 12, 2015

Far Niente Winery, always into innovation and creating new wineries, has recently opened Bella Union Winery in Rutherford, Napa Valley. ...

by Ed McCarthy | October 15, 2015

A recent wine news article caught my attention. In a blind tasting of over 1,000 red wines that took place...

by Ed McCarthy | September 21, 2015

The other day my local wine merchant told me that almost half of his wine sales this summer came from...

by Ed McCarthy | August 3, 2015

Champagne, like most businesses, including wine, has been traditionally run by the male of the species. And yet there always...