WRO, Author at Wine Review Online

The Different World of Sherry

by WRO | August 29, 2007

Sherry may conjure the image of old ladies drinking a cloyingly sweet wine. Yet, this fortified wine from southern Spain...

by WRO | August 12, 2007

Two remarkable things happened today. First, it is the 7th of April, baseball has started, the cherry blossoms in D.C....

by WRO | June 12, 2007

Forget old notions of Rioja. Images of bullfights and sangria from decades past have nothing to do with Rioja today,...

by WRO | May 7, 2007

Wine writers are a lucky lot. Getting to travel the world eating and drinking is simply the best job around. ...

by WRO | April 18, 2007

Jumping into the glacial blue water 200 feet below I thought to myself, ‘I love New Zealand!’ Where else can...

by WRO | March 21, 2007

I’m about to give you two glasses of the same wine, one from a cork-sealed bottle and the other from...

by WRO | March 17, 2007

Last month I went to Mendoza, Argentina, to get my head around Malbec. It was my first trip to South...

by WRO | February 21, 2007

American readers may be growing weary of European writers complaining of high alcohol in a growing number of California wines,...

by WRO | January 16, 2007

Now that the parties are over and all of those wonderful excuses for buying and uncorking the good stuff have...

by WRO | December 17, 2006

The holidays are upon us. It’s the perfect time to pause, reflect, and count one’s blessings, and in the world...

by WRO | October 6, 2006

The road south out of the pretty medieval village of La Cadière d’Azurt in Bandol heads downhill at first, into...

by WRO | September 24, 2006

Last week I toured vineyards in the Willamette Valley (in Oregon) and the Walla Walla Valley (in Oregon and Washington)...