Red wines from Austria’s Burgenland region are poised to make a big push toward prominence in export markets, and if that...
Planeta, Cerasuolo di Vittoria (Sicily, Italy) 2013
Planeta is an exceptional producer with multiple winemaking facilities located at various points around the large island of...
Corte alla Flora, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano (Tuscany, Italy) 2012
Fine Vino Nobile di Montepulciano wines are among Italy’s best renditions of Sangiovese, but they remain under-appreciated...
Pecchenino, Dogliani (Piedmont, Italy) 2015
Dogliani is an appellation located just south of Barolo and devoted to the Dolcetto grape. I travel to this area every...
Russiz Superiore, Collio (Friuli, Italy) Cabernet Franc 2013
Marco Felluga and his team have made a drop-dead gorgeous Cab Franc in 2013, one that is highly complex, very flavorful, and yet...
Wine Pairing Principles for Thanksgiving Dinner
The one thing I know about you for sure is that you read wine websites, and that gives me very good odds of being correct about...
Alsace Riesling Strikes Back
For the first decade of my work as a wine writer, I probably devoted more columns in The Washington Post to Riesling from Alsace...
How Long Should I Age This Wine?
For me, this is the toughest of all commonly asked consumer questions about wine. That is to say, this is the toughest one...
Domaine Pfister, Crémant d’Alsace (France) 2011
Generally speaking, most wine buyers turn to Crémants (sparkling wines) from across France -- including Alsace -- to get...
Mas de Daumas Gassac, Languedoc (France) 2014
Long one of the established stars within the Languedoc, which is known much more for quantity production than quality, Mas de...
Aurelio Settimo, Barolo (Piedmont, Italy) 2012
The spectacular success of the Rocche Dell’Annunziata cru in the village of La Morra extended so broadly that even...
Best of Barolo 2012 Vol. I: Novello, Serralunga and La Morra
The world of wine is marked so deeply by variations and nuances that there is almost no proposition to which everyone can...