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Whites Over Reds Dec. 19, 2023
If you're planning to have a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the new year, chances are pretty good tha... Read More
Beaujolais Dec. 06, 2023
One of the world's forgotten wines, but a delightful diversion, is Beaujolais nouveau — that f... Read More
Sparkling Wine Nov. 21, 2023
It's one of the world's great wine paradoxes: a delicate, subtle, food-oriented wine calling for int... Read More
Wine and Food Diversity Nov. 14, 2023
True wine lovers adore diversity in their wines as much as they love diversity in their foods. Yet t... Read More
Zinfatuated Oct. 31, 2023
Clumsy, foppish, lugubrious, doleful, gloom-imposing. These are just a few of the terms that I had e... Read More
Sweet Red Wines Oct. 24, 2023
All things change, and many of the changes may be seen only in retrospect. Some issues are in struct... Read More
Big Bottles Oct. 18, 2023
One of my worst days as a wine writer came about 10 years ago when I tried to lift a 12-bottle box o... Read More
Euro Versus Cali Oct. 10, 2023
California wine is basically all about sunlight and softness; most European wines are all about clou... Read More
Beaujolais Nouveau Oct. 03, 2023
Decades ago, if you said "Beaujolais nouveau" in a crowded theater, you might create a panic: Half t... Read More
Sauvignon Blanc Is Hot Sep. 26, 2023
In spite of the fact that there is so much wine in the world that wineries everywhere don't know wha... Read More
Heavy Bottles Aug. 29, 2023
One of the worst trends in winemaking over the last 25 years is the ever-greater use of ultraheavy b... Read More
Older Wines May. 16, 2023
"Like fine old wine." We've all heard people use versions of this timeworn saying, which suggests th... Read More
Dry Sherry Apr. 18, 2023
For most people, wine is simple: They drink anything that pleases them. But if you think of it as re... Read More
Wine Gadgets Apr. 04, 2023
Wine lore says that the cork, which comes from the bark of the cork oak tree, may first have been us... Read More
Euphemisms in Wine Feb. 14, 2023
Most people buy wine randomly. That appears to be the case from what I've observed in supermarkets. ... Read More
