I'm puzzled. A report in the Orlando Sentinel explains menu changes and price reductions at Ruth's Chris steak houses across the...
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Sommelier Challenge, A New Wine Competition
Call me crazy, but I've recently launched a new wine competition, my fourth. I know, there are too many wine competitions...
A Terrific Trio of Sherries
One of the drawbacks of writing about and tasting wine for a living is the danger of becoming sated. After a few thousand...
Roaming The Languedoc
ALZONNE, France — The final leg of my summer's journey through the wine world takes me to a renovated farming estate in...
Vacationing Where the Food Is Great and the Wine Cheap
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — I have only checked into the Maria Cristina a few minutes ago and am already bellied up to the...
Keeping an Open Mind in Monterey
I have never actually gone out of my way to be labeled “deranged”--but then Joel Burnstein told me that his Marilyn...
A Single Malt Primer, Part II
Traditionally, single malt Scotch whisky is aged in once-used American oak barrels, often previously used to mature American...
A Single Malt Primer, Part I
Wine drinkers are, by nature and temperament, restless souls, endlessly searching for that new taste experience. Syrah,...
Dutton Goldfield Pinots Make My Day
It's not every day that I sit down to a mountain of wines for tasting and evaluation and get up two hours later wishing there...
Wine Review Online Launches Wine Club
Today is a big day at Wine Review Online because it marks the "official" debut of our wine club in partnership with JV...
Critics Challenge Judges Have Spoken, and We Have It!
It's been a long hard slog since the final vote was cast and the Clayhouse Petite Sirah was named Wine of the Year at the sixth...
Marketing Whiz?
So there I was the other day browsing though the San Francisco Chronicle and this provocative headline caught my...