"All Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc tastes the same," is the major misconception that the industry must combat, according...
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Ravenswood’s Remaining Riches
For wine lovers, Ravenswood has become something of a Yogi Berra line: "Nobody drinks that anymore. It's too...
Returning to Soave
Reputations change slowly in the wine business. Many of my wine drinking friends have not touched a glass of Soave wine...
Antica: Another Achievement from Antinori
Everything Italy’s Marchese Piero Antinori and his winemaking family touches seemingly turns to gold: Chianti from...
Travel Log: Rioja
If you have never had an opportunity to go winery touring in Rioja, but have an interest in what the experience might be like,...
An Unlikely Area Producing Very Likeable Wines
The Niagara Peninsula is as unlikely a place as you can imagine for producing fine wines. Let’s start with the...
Shifts in Sonoma
Nineteen years ago, I moved to Sonoma County and took a small, and what I thought would be temporary, step into the wine...
For Long Island Wines, White Might be Right
When Alex and Louisa Hargrave founded Long Island’s first commercial winery on the North Fork in 1973, after an extensive...
In Praise of Alsace Riesling
When people regard something that lies outside the cultural mainstream as peerlessly beautiful, it often bothers them that...
Please Don’t Dilute
Many wine regulations make no sense. But to me, the worst is the one that allows a portion, usually 15%, of grapes from...
Taking Stock of Champagne Dom Perignon
I love Champagne, and have many favorites, but no other Champagne impresses me more than Dom Pérignon. I’m...
Mainstreaming Franc and Blanc
Over the years I’ve come to admire a number of grape varieties that I will charitably describe as out of the mainstream....