A joyful ceremony earlier this month to induct new ambassadors to the official fraternity of Châteauneuf-du-Pape -- the...
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Gevrey-Chambertin and 2017
With two high yield vintages in a row, could 2017 and 2018 be softening skyscraping prices in Burgundy? Price watchers...
Who Needs Wine Experts?
Not too long ago, the highly respected American public news source National Public Radio asked, “Is wine tasting junk...
People are Paying Attention to Bordeaux 2019 Futures
COVID-19 has caused a great many deaths and dislocations, so in any reasonable ranking of repercussions, wine-related problems...
Dry White ‘Oscar’ Worthy Summer Bargains from Bordeaux
I sparked a series of comments on Facebook the other day with the opening line, “Life really is too short to drink average...
Cellar Memories: 1870 Château Lafite-Rothschild
In France a wine is felt to be alive. It is born, matures, and later dies. Few wines outlive the lifetime of a man, but if one...
A Winery in…L.A.?
California red wine selling for $150+ a bottle is not a rarity anymore. But who’s heard of a Los Angeles winery...
No Rosé, Please…Just Chill the Red
The spray from the tsunami of rosé hitting our shores just soaked me. I know rosé is popular, but the latest...
Alsace Rieslings Strike Back
For the first decade of my work as a wine writer, I probably devoted more columns in The Washington Post to Riesling from Alsace...
The Platinum Parade
Over the 30 years I've been writing a nationally syndicated wine column, I've easily sampled a couple hundred thousand wines...
A Texas Winery’s Perspective During the Time of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the country, Texas has found itself in the spotlight as one of the...
A Look Back at the Wine World of 1933
Four score and seven years ago, a book entitled Wines by Julian Leonard Street was published. Julian Street was an...