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Summer’s Two Most Surprisingly Refreshing Sips
We’re now far enough into summer that you may be looking to switch things up when searching for wines suitable for sipping...
Prosecco Superiore DOCG: How to Think and What to Drink
In this follow-up to my column from last month, I want to get straight to the key points: First, buying almost any bottle...
Best of the Best from 2019
I hope you feel as fortunate as I do at the end of another calendar year. After tasting more than 9,000 wines,...
A Promising New Player in the Walla Walla AVA: Echolands Winery
New wineries get established pretty regularly in the New World, but I’m much less regular about actually reading the press...
Reflections on Willamette Valley & Yamhill-Carlton AVA
During college I passed through the Willamette Valley any number of times on my way from California up to my school, just south...
Tariff Suspension Welcome for French Wine Lovers
A recent report from Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the wine trade, indicates “surging” activity in response to...
What I’ve Been Drinking Lately: Beaujolais
If I were asked where the real bargains are today in the world of fine wine, I’d reply, without hesitation: Sherry,...
The Duckhorn Portfolio, Featuring its ‘Migration’ Pinot Noirs
Duckhorn Vineyards, founded in 1976 by Dan and Margaret Duckhorn in Napa Valley, outside the town of St. Helena, has become one...
A Taste of Montalcino With Col d’Orcia
In the storied history of Italy’s Tuscany region, the tale of Montalcino began as a humble farming community. Who...
Jane Anson’s Excellent ‘Inside Bordeaux’
Last October the Bordeaux Wine School in New York offered a webinar to wine professionals to discuss the terroir of Bordeaux and...
Quarantine Chronicles: Wines from Old Dirt That’ll Make You Feel Young
It’s been just about a full year since we went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that year has gotten me to...