John Anderson, Author at Wine Review Online

Having Your Cake-and Eating It!

by John Anderson | September 29, 2022

I was having lunch the other day with a lifelong friend of mine who happens to be a retired Foreign...

by John Anderson | July 28, 2022

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

by John Anderson | May 26, 2022

My spouse loves bubbly, and, particularly Champagne—le vrai Champagne—and would conceivably drink us out of house and home given the...

by John Anderson | April 8, 2022

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

by John Anderson | February 12, 2022

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

by John Anderson | December 14, 2021

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

by John Anderson | November 3, 2021

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

by John Anderson | August 26, 2021

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

by John Anderson | July 4, 2021

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

by John Anderson | May 20, 2021

My grandmother—my mother’s mother—often described herself as “an old East Texas farm lady.” She was that, for sure, but she...

by John Anderson | May 20, 2021

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

by John Anderson | May 20, 2021

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