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Terroir is Alive and Well in Barolo
With three wines, all made from Nebbiolo grape, the Marchese di Barolo, a top producer in Piedmont, shows the importance of...
Zig When They Zag: Nebbiolo and Arneis from Roero
Everybody who knows anything about investing knows to run contrary to the crowd: Sell when everybody else is buying and...
¡Salud!
“It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, the vegetables and other foods that...
Oregon Exemplars: Stoller Wine Group
Stoller Wine Group, based Dayton, Oregon in the Willamette Valley, includes Stoller Family Estate, Chehalem Winery, Chemistry,...
Vintage Madeira
Why am I writing about a wine that is quite rare nowadays, and no longer the great value that it was a few decades ago? I...
Quarantine Chronicles: Pandemic Perils, Pounds and the Resurgence of the Alt Beverage
It seems today that we could be about to come out of the past year of quarantine isolation and all of the things that have come...
The Other Cabernet’s Time to Shine
Cabernet Franc, cultivated over the last 700 years, has recently become newsworthy. Not splashy, front-page stuff, but...
Barolo 2015, Vol. II: Communes of Castiglione Falletto, Monforte d’Alba, Novello and Serralunga d’Alba
Experienced wine buyers around the world know to be wary of general hype of vintages from Europe, largely because expectations...
South Africa: Past the Thinking, and On to Drinking
As I observed in my column here on Wine Review Online last month, “South Africa has now clearly joined the ranks of the...
Recognizing the Wine World’s Fastest-Rising Star, with 25 Years of Retrospect
I began writing about wine in 1993, first for The Washington Times and then, eight months later, for The Washington Post, where...
Wine Cool
Temperature is a crucial factor in wine appreciation, yet it is a factor that is insufficiently appreciated by many...