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Chill Out This Fall with Cool-Climate Chilean Syrah

by Pam Roberto | Oct 1, 2024

Summer may not be officially over just yet, but cooler temperatures, falling leaves, and pumpkin spice ubiquity are looming on...

by Wayne Belding | Sep 3, 2024

The wine industry has changed a great deal in my lifetime. I did not become interested in fine wine until the late 1970’s and...

by Roger Morris | Aug 27, 2024

In wine, as is the case in most everything in life, there is a standard, and then there is everything within the same category...

by Michael Franz | Aug 15, 2024

When I first heard South Styria characterized as "The Tuscany of Austria," I was certain I had encountered a new low in Public...

by Michael Apstein | Aug 13, 2024

The following notes are based on barrel samples tasted (unblinded) at the chateaux, at an unblinded tasting organized by the...

by Elin McCoy | Apr 9, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I spent a rainy five days in Burgundy tasting a few hundred wines from the 2006 vintage. As usual, I...

by WRO | Mar 5, 2008

Although I was pretty sure I wouldn't fall off my bike on the Columbia Gorge highway or tip my canoe into the Willamette...

by Elin McCoy | Feb 6, 2008

Now that the idea of growing grapes organically and biodynamically has become oh-so-buzzworthy and draws more media attention...

by WRO | Jan 19, 2008

Sake and sushi may have seemed like part of a broad Japanese fad back in the 80s, but while movies like Gung-ho have faded into...

by WRO | Oct 3, 2007

Just about every week I get an email from another wine estate touting their green consciousness. Sometimes it's about...

by WRO | Aug 29, 2007

Sherry may conjure the image of old ladies drinking a cloyingly sweet wine. Yet, this fortified wine from southern Spain...

by Ed McCarthy | Dec 12, 2006

Producers of Champagne and other sparkling wines love the month of December! And why not? Some of them sell as much...