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Beaujolais: A Versatile Wine
One of the many things I love about Beaujolais is its variety and versatility. There’s Beaujolais Nouveau, a...
How to Make Great Wine: Rudd Estate
How do you make great wine? You start with a great place with the right soils and plant grape varieties best suited to...
Summertime Reds
Summer weather does not signal to me that I stop drinking red wines--it just changes the type of red wines that I choose to...
Viognier and Condrieu — Again
On vacation in southern France a few weeks ago, I rediscovered Viognier--or more specifically, Condrieu, the grape’s...
Surprising Whites for the Rosé Season
It’s well known that the red wines from the south of France can provide great pleasure, especially for the price. ...
Crystalline Rocks: The Real Power of Crystals
For geologists, there are three basic types of rocks -- igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Igneous rocks are the...
Three Exceptional Sources for Rheingau Riesling
For the past couple of years I’ve been attending Prowein, the international wine fair held in Düsseldorf each...
Postcards from the Road: Alentejo Take-Aways
Just back from a week in Alentejo, Portugal, one of the country’s hottest wine regions--and I mean that literally,...
2017: A Great Port Vintage
We can all look forward to a great vintage of Port--or Porto, as it is officially called now--reaching the United States in...
What Does a Millennial Want?
In the mid-twentieth century the legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud claimed that women puzzled him. “What does a...
Bordeaux 2018: 20 Sensational Reds
BORDEAUX, France – The splendid 2018 vintage of red Bordeaux marks the fourth consecutive very good to outstanding harvest...