Marguerite Thomas, Author at Wine Review Online

Double Loss for Long Island Wine Community

by Marguerite Thomas | July 4, 2014

The New York wine industry is deeply saddened by the recent deaths of Marco and Ann Marie Borghese, owners of...

by Marguerite Thomas | June 9, 2014

I hate liver–how can anyone eat the stuff? But I love beets, so why doesn’t everyone else like them? Food...

by Marguerite Thomas | April 16, 2014

Here’s a mini quiz for you: Which country can boast the highest vineyards in the world? Yes, Switzerland, where terraced...

by Marguerite Thomas | February 19, 2014

The words we use to talk about wine say a lot about who we are and how we think about...

by Marguerite Thomas | December 18, 2013

Remember the Seinfeld Soup Nazi episode when George says, “Shh, I gotta focus. I’m shifting into soup mode”? That’s what...

by Marguerite Thomas | November 20, 2013

You’ve already perused Piedmont’s delicious wine country, browsed Burgundian chais, sampled Sonoma’s selections and meditated over Malbec on a hot...

by Marguerite Thomas | October 2, 2013

Pity the poor consumer! Typically faced with a plethora of decisions that have to be made when figuring out which...

by Marguerite Thomas | August 27, 2013

People who drink wine regularly fall into three broad, occasionally overlapping, categories. The most basic group (sometimes known in the...

by Marguerite Thomas | July 10, 2013

The word “locavore” seems so much a part of our language it’s hard to imagine that it was coined only...

by Marguerite Thomas | April 8, 2013

As usual, H.L. Mencken said it best: For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple–and wrong....

by Marguerite Thomas | January 16, 2013

At various wine events I’ve watched countless numbers of people slosh some water in their glass, dump it out, then...

by Marguerite Thomas | December 4, 2012

In my last blog I described some of my favorite places to eat and sleep in Paso Robles. This time...