Have you considered a Greek wine with Sunday dinner? A change of pace always does a soul good, especially that of a wine lover. Don't recoil at the idea, especially if you plan on   Read More »

After years of drinking more wine, and more expensive wine every year, Americans are reacting to the economic downturn by drinking at least as much, but cheaper wine, shop owners   Read More »

Alex Trebek: Sparta and Troy, Harvard and Yale, Napa and Sonoma. Contestant: What are history's eternally enduring rivalries? It's true.   Read More »

As I hope you've noticed, I spend a lot of time writing about inexpensive wines, which these days means $20 or less a bottle. Unlike buyers of $12 wine magazines, a lot of   Read More »

A ticket to the recent Grand Tastings at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach went for $187.50, and was offered by scalpers on eBay for $400 and more.   Read More »

Chardonnay remains the chameleon of grapes, infinitely malleable depending upon where the grapes are grown, when they're picked and how they're made into wine.   Read More »

"I've been fooling around with zinfandel my whole career," says Randle Johnson. "Sure, I was a cabernet sauvignon guy, too, but all of us cab guys want to try our hand at zinfandel.   Read More »

My original introduction for this article was going to be something along the lines of: "Salami, no matter how you slice it, goes great with wines, particularly Italian barberas.   Read More »