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

Friends and colleagues gathered recently at Santa Barbara County's La Purisima Mission to honor Richard Sanford, and I couldn't...

Maison Louis Latour's Corton-Charlemagne is the benchmark wine for that grand cru vineyard.  Always tightly wound when...

Last week I toured vineyards in the Willamette Valley (in Oregon) and the Walla Walla Valley (in Oregon and Washington) to get...

Wine importer Terry Theise is the wunderkind of fine German and Austrian wines and of small, quality grower Champagnes.  As...

While many people have been hanging out at the pool basking in the sunshine this summer, I've been a Pinot Noir pleasure...

Everyone is familiar with the French Paradox: the French eat a diet rich in fat, but have a low rate of heart disease. ...

Remember all of those 2003 harvest reports you read at the end of that year?  Me neither.  That's one of the many...

1.  When it comes to the table it is like the arrival of a very beautiful woman who is a little late, but not too...

Spain has the largest per capita consumption of seafood - after Japan - according to David Parker, Export Manager of Castillo...

I visit the Champagne region in France at least once every two years.  It's my favorite wine region to visit, for two main...

The evening typically unfolds with friends ordering up great vintages of Barolo, Barbaresco and even Bordeaux. As the wine list...