Jim Clarke, Author at Wine Review Online

Flourishing with Elegance in the Heart of Sicily: Feudo Montoni

by Jim Clarke | November 12, 2025

With 23 DOCs and one DOCG, Sicily doesn’t lack for appellations, some very specific, and some more general. Some are...

by Jim Clarke | July 23, 2025

The wines of Mount Etna have taken on a life of their own, largely distinct from the island of Sicily...

by Jim Clarke | May 14, 2025

Conversations about wine in the Rhône Valley tend to focus on a north-south divide, pitting the smaller, Syrah-driven appellations of...

by Jim Clarke | February 19, 2025

There’s always a certain trepidation when a highly regarded “cult” winery changes hands, especially when a larger company snatches it...

by Jim Clarke | December 4, 2024

Climate change is often accused of driving European winegrowing northward – see the increasing success of England’s sparkling wines, with...

by Jim Clarke | July 31, 2024

I’m continually on the lookout for a particular sort of white wine. I’m fine with racy, linear whites when the...

by Jim Clarke | March 15, 2024

There’s always a certain trepidation when a highly regarded “cult” winery changes hands, especially when a larger company snatches it...

by Jim Clarke | December 10, 2023

Twenty years ago, when I began studying wine professionally, Gigondas’s status was hard to define. As a budding sommelier you...

by Jim Clarke | September 17, 2023

The “Super Tuscan” designation embraced a wide swath of wines, most of which first appeared in the last decade or...

by Jim Clarke | September 17, 2023

Given its success with Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley Chardonnay seems like a slam dunk white for the region. It has...

by Jim Clarke | November 23, 2022

Over the past decade or more there have been a few trends that have been relatively universal across the world...

by Jim Clarke | September 21, 2022

It’s a common enough belief among casual wine drinkers that white wine should be enjoyed young, or even, as young...