The Myth of Aging
Is aging potential a necessary aspect of a great wine? Not a good or pleasurable wine, but a truly great...
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Thinking Taste
by Paul Lukacs | August 10, 2016
I have a neighbor who will drink only red wine. White wines don’t give him headaches or cause him digestive...
Read More The Distinctive Dry Wines of Roussillon
by Paul Lukacs | June 30, 2016
Roussillon is not Languedoc. The two regions are often bundled together—by tourist guides let alone wine writers—but they have very...
Read More Revisiting the Paris Tasting
by Paul Lukacs | May 10, 2016
It was forty years ago this month that a group of French wine experts misidentified a set of California Cabernets...
Read More California Shame
by Paul Lukacs | February 11, 2016
California can produce some of the finest wines in the world, but, sadly, fewer and fewer wines being made today...
Read More Globalization and ‘Terroir’
by Paul Lukacs | November 11, 2015
A focus on “terroir”–the idea, not the dirt–has been a perhaps inevitable response to wine’s ongoing globalization. That does not...
Read More The Question of Quality: Idealists Versus Realists
by Paul Lukacs | September 23, 2015
Fifty years is a long time, but in the history of wine–a history that spans some 8,000 years–it’s a mere...
Read More An Italian Snapshot
by Paul Lukacs | July 28, 2015
VinoVip is an annual celebration of Italian wine hosted by the influential Italian wine magazine, Civiltá del bere. Held in...
Read More Thirty Years Old But Not Grown Up
by Paul Lukacs | June 3, 2015
A drive lasting more than two hours in southern France last month took me across three administrative départements, the Gard,...
Read More Pinot Blanc Can Be a Star
by Paul Lukacs | February 25, 2015
It must be hard being Pinot Blanc. You come from a noble family, one of the most renowned in the...
Read More New Year’s Wine Resolutions
by Paul Lukacs | December 24, 2014
When it comes to saving money or loosing weight, New Year’s resolutions can be a burden. That’s why most get...
Read More America’s Pinot Passion
by Paul Lukacs | September 3, 2014
American Pinot Noir is hot. Bottles fly off store shelves, and restaurateurs can’t keep the more popular labels in stock. ...
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