When I finally caught up with John Larchet last week he had just returned from Australia with a boat load of new wines. Larchet...

These are the eternal questions if you have your hands on a bottle of wine that is 20 years old or older. Not all wines improve...

Literally dozens of press releases cross my desk each day and most of them find a home in the basket from which there is no...

This from my syndicated Copley News Service column, published earlier this week: I vividly recall my first Thanksgiving as a...

Tony Terlato has probably seen it all over his 50 years in the wine business, so when he determines that what the world really...

Since returning from nearly two months out of the country touring some of the wine world's hottest spots (I counted 24 separate...

One of the great myths about Champagne, repeated ad nauseum around the holidays, is the proposition that Champagne makes a good...

I had an eerie feeling as I toured the cellars last month at New Zealand's Kumeu River Winery, just outside Auckland....

I always take away a few useful observations from the Combat des Vins, an annual event at San Diego's Le Fontainebleau...

BEAUNE, France - It is a short walk from the historic Hospice de Beaune in the town center to the offices of Maison Joseph...

I had a blast judging at the 2006 International Chardonnay Challenge last month in Gisborne, New Zealand, despite the fact that...

BEAUNE, France -- I'm thumbing through the wine list at Le Conty, a charming bistrot with a killer cellar in the center of...