Vino Nobile di Montepulciano exemplifies the confusion surrounding Italian wine labels.  This wine’s meteoric increase in quality over the past...

Shiraz (aka Syrah) is now firmly in place as Australia’s most popular grape–and wine.  But it wasn’t always that way. ...

The labels say “product of Australia,” but red wines from Western Australia are about as un-Australian as you can get. ...

It is the part of restaurant dining that most people dread.  You are with a group of colleagues or friends,...

Bait and switch, an unsavory tactic in the used-car business, is finding its way into the wine industry.  Think of...

The major criticisms of wines from the New World are that they have too much fruit and alcohol and too...

Christian Moueix, perhaps the most influential wine figure in Pomerol and St.  Émilion where he oversees his family’s ten properties,...

Perhaps people who spend their entire life with Merlot become like the wine: easy-going and charming, without hard edges.  That...