Paso Robles is a relatively new major wine region. It became an AVA in 1983, but as late as 1990, Paso Robles was the home...
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Taste Matters
I hate liver--how can anyone eat the stuff? But I love beets, so why doesn’t everyone else like them? Food...
Remarkable Rieslings
In my capacity as Guy With World’s Best Job, I spent much of last week in Germany, tasting extraordinary renditions of...
New Zealand Odyssey
I’ve just returned from New Zealand, and confess that I’m still jetlagged and absorbing the experience. ...
Jadot in Oregon: Another French Invasion?
Jadot’s seemingly sudden expansion into Oregon was, as Pierre Henry Gagey, President of Maison Louis Jadot, one of...
Sonoma Legacy in a Bottle
I’m a sucker for a good wine story, particularly when I’ve experienced a tiny bit of it myself and know it to be...
An Assessment of Vintage Champagne
Until recently, the U.S. has not been a big market for Vintage Champagne. Non-Vintage Bruts, the least expensive...
New and Old in California
There has been a lot of talk lately about a new style of California wine--one allegedly marked as much by restraint as by...
Rock Solid: Granite Terroir in the Wine World
Wine lovers are fond of associating famous wines with the soils from which they are drawn. One of the first facts the...
Who’s On First? Champagne’s Earliest Houses
In this spring-summer season, filled with tradition and reflection at graduations and weddings that effervesce with Champagne,...
Groundbreaking Rosé From a Bordelais in Provence
Sacha Lichine’s upbringing in Bordeaux explains to me why his rosés from Provence are so stunning. Of course,...
Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Freixenet
Freixenet might be the best-known wine in the world. The Spanish company makes more than 100 million bottles of Cava each...