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Napa 2024: Gray’s Sky Meets Blazing Paddles

by Roger Morris | Mar 15, 2024

Is the sky falling on Napa Valley? A colleague of mine, the writer W. Blake Gray, seems to think so. And maybe it...

by John McDermott | Mar 15, 2024

The struggle any wine lover eventually encounters is a palate that exceeds their budget. It happens inevitably. ...

by Rebecca Murphy | Mar 15, 2024

A recent webinar I attended featuring Tannat wines from Uruguay, hosted by Peter Granoff, MS. It brought back fond...

by Norm Roby | Mar 15, 2024

Praising a well-known winemaker as a “legend” or a” rockstar” has become quite common in wine circles,...

by Michael Franz | Feb 15, 2024

I know, I know...we’re into February, and the conventional time for making resolutions is more than a month behind...

by Michael Apstein | Feb 15, 2024

One of things I adore about wine is how it expresses Mother Nature. The same grape grown in adjacent vineyards and turned...

by John Anderson | Feb 7, 2024

The Ole Professor preaches thrift year ‘round—and mostly he adheres to his own preachings — but there are...

by Rich Cook | Jan 25, 2024

In last month’s column there was so much to write about going to Portugal’s Alentejo region in November 2023 from a...

by Pam Roberto | Jan 24, 2024

‘A muntagna. The mountain. That’s what the locals call Mount Etna, the colossal volcano that overshadows...

by Christy Frank | Jan 20, 2024

So if you know, you know. And if you don’t, I’ll fill you in. Ochota Barrels wines are some of the...

by Jessica Dupuy | Jan 18, 2024

While the winter landscape outside may be cold and frigid, the lighter-styled red wines of Alto Adige are just the ticket to...

by Roger Morris | Jan 17, 2024

On a reporting trip to Bordeaux during harvest a few years ago, I had lunch with the staff and sizable picking crew, mainly...