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The Joys of Exploring Italian Wines
One of the many things I adore about Italian wine is its seemingly limitless depth. You can always uncover a wine area or...
Terroir in Bordeaux
Part of my enthusiasm for wine, and I’m sure other’s as well, is that the character of the wine is, or at least...
Léoville-Poyferré: Another Super Second?
A vertical tasting of 15 vintages of Château Léoville Poyferré paired with food at the French Embassy in...
Visit a World Class Winery While Near DC? Yes…Linden Vineyards
Wineries are popular places to visit, but the reasons for this aren’t immediately obvious. Growing grapes and making...
Appreciation: Robert Whitley, 1950 – 2021
As many readers of Wine Review Online are aware from the sad notice I posted in this web site’s blog space 10 days ago, we...
The Roussillons are Coming! The Roussillons are Coming!
So many winery projects, plans and promotions were put on the back burner in 2020 that it feels like we all were in the twilight...
Our Varietal Obsession
Wine drinkers have become obsessed with grape varieties. Most consumers identify and ultimately select wines primarily on...
Langhe Nebbiolo
Nebbiolo is my favorite wine grape variety. And yet it is not well-known, other than for aficionados of the Piedmont...
Stars Align for Village Chablis
It’s no particular surprise that wine trends, like so many others, are cyclical. Of course, there are long-term,...
Mencía from Bierzo: The Latest Arrival at the Gateway to Greatness
For many years while I was working as wine columnist for The Washington Post, I conducted a live, online question-and-answer...
Highlighting Bordeaux’s Latest Vintage from Bottle
The 2018 vintage is the latest Bordeaux in bottle and as I had noted during barrel tastings, it is not the most homogenous,...