Paul Lukacs, Author at Wine Review Online

Our Varietal Obsession

by Paul Lukacs | February 11, 2021

Wine drinkers have become obsessed with grape varieties. Most consumers identify and ultimately select wines primarily on the basis of...

by Paul Lukacs | September 2, 2020

Ripe fruit tastes sweet, unripe fruit harsh and sour. Think of a summer peach, an autumn pear or a spring...

by Paul Lukacs | May 27, 2020

Varietal identification–the classification of wines by grape–has been one of the most important developments in the world of wine over...

by Paul Lukacs | April 8, 2020

Value in wine is a two-headed coin. One is economic, the other aesthetic. Each depicts something different, and each sometimes...

by Paul Lukacs | February 19, 2020

For many thousands of years, the fundamental challenge facing anyone making wine was to produce something sound rather than spoiled. ...

by Paul Lukacs | December 24, 2019

Long regarded as the world’s finest brandy, Cognac can be an ideal holiday delicacy. Though often thought of as a...

by Paul Lukacs | October 24, 2019

Wine today is radically different from wine in the past. Not just the distant past, the wines that the Greeks...

by Paul Lukacs | June 19, 2019

On vacation in southern France a few weeks ago, I rediscovered Viognier–or more specifically, Condrieu, the grape’s ancestral home. Our...

by Paul Lukacs | April 24, 2019

Spring, wrote Shakespeare, “hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” When young, we dress, exercise, work, and play unlike...

by Paul Lukacs | February 27, 2019

Wine is like fashion. Different styles and types become trendy or hot while others fall from favor, all for no...

by Paul Lukacs | November 7, 2018

I was fortunate enough recently to sample a new super-premium wine from Spain’s Ribera del Duero. It’s called Pinea, the...

by Paul Lukacs | July 18, 2018

It is a truism bordering on cliché to observe that wine the world over is better than it’s ever been. ...