Michael Franz, Author at Wine Review Online

The Case for Champagne

by Michael Franz | December 23, 2008

If you think you are too bummed out by the current economic climate to pony up for a bottle of...

by Michael Franz | December 14, 2008

Do you think you are too bummed out by the current economic climate to drink a bottle of Champagne at...

by Michael Franz | November 27, 2008

Statistics show that millions of Americans drink wine on just a few days each year, and Thanksgiving is a big...

by Michael Franz | November 26, 2008

Turkey is pretty far down my list of favorite foods, and Thanksgiving is not a culinary highlight of my year...

by Michael Franz | November 5, 2008

You can do a few bad things before you get a reputation for being a bad person. (I’m rather grateful...

by Michael Franz | November 1, 2008

Everybody knows that chicken breast is good for you, being high in protein and quite low in fat. The problem...

by Michael Franz | October 29, 2008

My recent column entitled, “South Africa: Fragile Flower of the Wine World” prompted an unusually high volume of reader response,...

by Michael Franz | October 29, 2008

This column follows on the heels of one that I published here on WRO a month ago with a title...

by Michael Franz | October 13, 2008

I’ve received a lot of reader reactions to my column, ‘South Africa: Fragile Flower of the Wine World,’ published on...

by Michael Franz | September 30, 2008

I’m writing this column on the heels of a trip to South Africa, reflecting on a week of observation that...

by Michael Franz | September 27, 2008

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Granted, Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé from France’s Loire Valley, along with New Zealand’s Marlborough region, are the...

by Michael Franz | August 21, 2008

This is my idea of a really pressing question. And thanks to Marguerite Thomas and Paul Lukacs, I know the...