W. Blake Gray, Author at Wine Review Online

Rethinking Cognac

by W. Blake Gray | April 7, 2024

We’ve been drinking Cognac all wrong. I just spent three days in the Cognac region, immersed in the stuff, and...

by W. Blake Gray | April 30, 2014

Freixenet might be the best-known wine in the world. The Spanish company makes more than 100 million bottles of Cava...

by W. Blake Gray | January 15, 2014

I’m going to simplify Sherry for you. Or at least, I’m going to explain how simple it now seems to...

by W. Blake Gray | October 21, 2013

Faced with an ocean of wine to sell, Bordeaux has come up with a new category. "Clairet" is like a...

by W. Blake Gray | June 14, 2013

Other winemakers call Kathleen Inman "The Barometer of Russian River Valley." "I’m the first person to pick every year," Inman...

by W. Blake Gray | March 6, 2013

On the Greek island of Santorini, nobody could believe it. Greece was joining the EU, protector of place names –...

by W. Blake Gray | November 14, 2012

Despite being consistently one of the most popular wines in restaurants in the United States, Jordan is not easy to...

by W. Blake Gray | September 19, 2012

Andrea Contucci lives in a home his great-great-grandfather’s great-great-grandfather thought was old. Amazingly, he also makes wine in the same...

by W. Blake Gray | August 23, 2012

It’s amazing how easy it is, when talking about top California wine regions, to forget about Livermore Valley. It’s not...

by W. Blake Gray | June 27, 2012

Chappellet isn’t the trendiest name in Napa Valley. Their wines are big but not the biggest. The wines around them,...

by W. Blake Gray | April 4, 2012

Tony Terlato says Syrah will make a comeback. You have to listen to Terlato; this is the man who introduced...

by W. Blake Gray | March 7, 2012

By making the best cheap wine in the world, Vinho Verde created an image problem. It’s hard for consumers to...