The Côte de Brouilly is one of the four smallest crus of Beaujolais, typically producing less than 20,000 hl of wine per...

As many of you know by now, the news out of Burgundy isn’t good.  Killer frosts and short harvests are the order of...

Normally, the great rewards (or at least a recompense) of the wine writer’s life include many trade tastings, never more...

A very wise friend of mine always counsels me to buy more wine than I think I can afford.  “Look,” he will say...

At Cape Cod in August and drinking mostly young, French wines, I was struck again and again by how often the first words that...

While on August vacation at Cape Cod, I am always struck by the effects of the three-tier distribution system—even today...

I’ve been drinking wine for something like 45 years, and professionally as a wine writer, editor, critic and columnist for...

My grandmother—my mother’s mother—often described herself as “an old East Texas farm lady.” ...

I began writing about wine as a protest.   Not because I didn’t like wine—I love wine and have from the moment...

It seems that I am eternally in search of affordable burgundies.  Good affordable burgundies, that is. There are days when...

For most of us, the grand wines and grander Champagnes in our cellars met their Waterloo over the holidays.  Drunk with...