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What I’ve Been Drinking Lately: Had I Only Known!
I’ve been drinking wine for something like 45 years, and professionally as a wine writer, editor, critic and columnist for...
Tribute: Paul Lukacs Ph.D., 1956-2021
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 the wine world lost one of its most insightful writers, and we at Wine Review Online lost one of our...
Quarantine Chronicles: Epilogue (I Hope…)
Back in October, in the middle of the quarantine, I ended a column with the words, “I’m ready for 2020 to end. ...
Note to the ABC Club: Time to Disband
I count myself fortunate to have the chore of tasting a lot of wine. In the thirty-five years or so that I’ve been...
Etna Erupts
One of the great things about Italian wines is that so many notable ones, both white and red, fly under the radar. ...
A New Take on Terroir
“Terroir” in wine talk has been around for years but it is more often brought up today in discussions of French...
Island Wines of Italy
Sicily and Sardinia are the two largest islands in the Mediterranean, and both are home to distinctive wine traditions. In...
Optimizing Wine for Summertime
Temperature is a crucial factor in wine appreciation, yet it is a factor that is insufficiently appreciated by many...
Lighten Up: Appreciating Loire Valley Reds
The Loire Valley is one of the world’s greatest--but most under-appreciated--sources for fresh, versatile, un-fussy...
An Embarrassment of Riches: South Africa Vol. II
I returned from South Africa five weeks ago, where I spent more than seven days tasting very intensively across virtually every...
New Year’s Resolution: Improve Restaurant Wine Lists
In this initial stretch of 2019, with a fresh resolutions being pursued right and left, I have a proposal: Let’s...