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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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