Michael Franz, Author at Wine Review Online

All Thoughts Turned Toward Safety in California Fire Zones

by Michael Franz | October 28, 2019

As readers are probably aware, horrifying fires are torching portions of California. I’m confident that I speak for everyone involved...

by Michael Franz | August 20, 2019

France’s Rhône Valley is on a historic tear, with excellent vintages now running back-to-back for a decade even as prices...

by Michael Franz | July 23, 2019

I’m sure you’ve heard the cliché by which something is said to be “the gift that keeps on giving.” Well,...

by Michael Franz | June 4, 2019

It is a sad fact of human nature that we tend to overlook that which is familiar–even when the familiar...

by Michael Franz | April 30, 2019

The 2015 vintage in many European appellations was all about promise or peril–or both, as turns out to be the...

by Michael Franz | April 17, 2019

AVIGNON, France – I’m halfway through a week involving tastings of more than 500 wines in both the northern and...

by Michael Franz | March 6, 2019

I’ve got very good news to report, based on very extensive tastings of newly-released Barbaresco and Barolo wines that I...

by Michael Franz | March 4, 2019

We’re now entering the scariest tax season in recent memory, with great uncertainty flowing from the 2018 “Tax Cuts and...

by Michael Franz | January 9, 2019

History will doubtlessly regard 2018 as a troubled year in many respects, but like every year in recent memory, it...

by Michael Franz | November 24, 2018

I’m posting this blog two days before “Cyber Monday,” and unless you’ve spent the past two days since “Black Friday”...

by Michael Franz | November 24, 2018

Everyone has their own reasons for being thankful after Thanksgiving. For some, it might be Black Friday, or Cyber Monday,...

by Michael Franz | November 19, 2018

In most American families, altering the menu for Thanksgiving Dinner would be unthinkable at best…and downright heretical at worst. I...