I’ll admit that shoes and wine don’t generally come to mind as typical made-for-each-other partners.  The...

One of the most enduring myths of wine appreciation is the quaint notion of room temperature. If you have even a passing...

Despite the movement away from rich buttery Chardonnay, Chablis, home to the original unoaked Chardonnay, remains...

There’s an old saying for contests that have degraded into mismatches:  “If it were a fight, they’d have...

Ernest Cockburn once famously declared “the first duty” of any port wine “to be red.”  Contemporary...

“Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.”  This quote, from that old rascal WC Fields,...

A wine I had with dinner last week, 2008 Faiveley Bourgogne Rouge (about $20), reminded me of the perils of assessing young...

Spring is bringing warmer weather all across the northern hemisphere, with predictable results:  Meals are turning lighter...

When it comes to long-term wine storage, the three most important things to consider are light, humidity, and temperature....

It has been years, decades actually, since I experienced a Georgia summer. I remember the boiling sun by day and the steamy...

Axel Heinz, winemaker for Ornellaia, was in Boston last week showing the newly released 2008 Ornellaia and its second wine, Le...