Paul Lukacs, Author at Wine Review Online

Two New World Classics

by Paul Lukacs | August 31, 2011

It’s been a full generation since wines from the New World first emerged to challenge the supremacy of the classic...

by Paul Lukacs | August 24, 2011

The upcoming publication of a new book by Gerald Asher (A Vineyard in My Glass, University of California Press) strikes...

by Paul Lukacs | August 3, 2011

Wine is complicated. It’s complicated to buy, to store, to open, even to appreciate and understand. That’s why so many...

by Paul Lukacs | July 20, 2011

First, a disclaimer: I know and like Roy Cloud, the author of To Burgundy and Back Again (Lyons Press, $16.95),...

by Paul Lukacs | July 20, 2011

First, a disclaimer: I know and like Roy Cloud, the author of To Burgundy and Back Again (Lyons Press, $16.95),...

by Paul Lukacs | July 12, 2011

It used to be simple. If you grew wine grapes, you picked them when they began to taste sweet. You...

by Paul Lukacs | July 6, 2011

“Nostalgia,” the novelist Peter de Vries once quipped, “isn’t what it used to be.” That thought came to mind the...

by Paul Lukacs | June 29, 2011

For American wine-lovers visiting French grape growing regions, no matter whether Bordeaux or Burgundy, Champagne or Alsace, the last night...

by Paul Lukacs | June 22, 2011

The most interesting wine I drank during a family vacation in France last week was not the riveting grand cru...

by Paul Lukacs | June 14, 2011

This is a tale of two–no, three–wines. The first is a bottle that had gotten lost in my cellar, a...

by Paul Lukacs | June 7, 2011

Fifty years ago, although wine certainly was being made elsewhere, fine wine–that is, wine valued for more than just calories...

by Paul Lukacs | June 1, 2011

When was the last time that the word “refreshing” came to mind when drinking a glass of California white wine? ...