If there was ever any doubt,--and, of course, there shouldn’t be--that Brunello di Montalcino is one of the world’s...
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Interview with Burgess Cellars Winemaker Kelly Woods
Burgess Cellars can trace its origins to the 1880s, when Italian immigrant Carlo Rossini planted grapes and started a wine...
Climate Change Means Wine Change
Last year was a worldwide wine calamity. From wildfires in Chile, South Africa, Portugal, and Spain, not to mention...
Rediscover Alsace: Unique Geology, Extraordinary Wines
Despite producing a profusion of stellar wines, Alsace is often overlooked when it comes to French winegrowing areas. The...
Wanna Fight About Virginia?
Some aficionados who can afford the world’s great wines think making wine in a place like Virginia is…well, sort of...
The Buzz on High Alcohol Wines…From the Old World
There’s definitely been a move away from high-alcohol wines in many parts of the world, and generally it’s been to...
2015 Bordeaux: A Vintage to Buy
The wines from Bordeaux are definitely not the darlings of the breed of new-wave sommeliers whose wine lists are heavy with...
The Finer Points of Building a By The Glass List
There’s nothing worse than ordering a glass of wine only to be delivered a stale, oxidized, pour that is tragically off...
Aging and Serving Wine
Have you ever opened a bottle of fine wine, poured it, and thought, “This doesn’t taste so good”? I have...
My Top 20 ‘Value’ Wines of 2017
Creators Syndicate Looking back at memorable wines from my 2017 evaluations, I would be remiss if I didn’t reflect upon...
Best of 2017…With a View to 2018
My last column of 2017 took a retrospective look at some of the vinous highlights I observed during the year, whereas this...
Reinventing Cork
I’ve come to the little town of Céret in southwestern France, home of one of the two Diam cork factories--the...