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Pairing Wines & Foods? You Don’t Need a Sommelier
Sommeliers hold a higher profile right now than they have for a generation--or maybe two. Even while acknowledging that...
Rethinking Cognac
We've been drinking Cognac all wrong. I just spent three days in the Cognac region, immersed in the stuff, and not once did I...
Wine Review Online’s Ed McCarthy Shifting into Columnist Emeritus Status
It is with profound gratitude that we at WRO thank Ed McCarthy for his consistently excellent columns published every four weeks...
Welcoming Columnist Pam Roberto to Wine Review Online
Along with my colleagues at Wine Review Online, I’m delighted to welcome Pam Roberto to our ranks as a regular...
In Praise of ‘Country’ Wines
"But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed, The trembling earth resounds his tread" --"Address to a Haggis" Robert...
Platinum Award Winners from the 2024 San Diego International Challenge
Surely you’ve seen wine competition medal stickers in ads or on labels or “hang tags” on bottles in retail...
Montalcino’s Poggio di Sotto: Still in Good Hands
There’s always a certain trepidation when a highly regarded “cult” winery changes hands, especially when a...
The Amazing 2022 Burgundies
Let me cut directly to the chase, or rather, the bottom line: Buy as much of the 2022 Burgundies—both red and...
Breaking Barrels, Part 3: Women in the Italian and French Wine Worlds of Puglia and Bordeaux
In March, as International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month take center stage, we continue to shine a spotlight...
Château Haut-Bailly 25-Year Vertical from Magnum Bottles
You know a Bordeaux producer is worthy when their second wine at nearly 20 years old is selected among the top in a blind...
Revisiting Bordeaux Wines
“Unbeatable quality, indisputably aristocratic. Ludicrously unfashionable.” Those words were written in 1986...