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Sail With Bacchus Aboard a Barge Through France Jul. 19, 2025

Travel and Adventure

By Fyllis Hockman The 12 of us gathered for a sumptuous four-course gourmet dinner, each dish season... Read More

Beyond Tasting Wine in Napa and Sonoma May. 24, 2025

Travel and Adventure

By Divina Infusino What can visitors do in Napa and Sonoma besides drink wine? The question looms la... Read More

Temecula Valley Wows With Wine and Wisteria Apr. 20, 2025

Travel and Adventure

By Nicola Bridges There's a certain serenity to sipping a glass of fine sangiovese wine while watchi... Read More

Find Out When You Get There: A One-Day Surprise Road Trip Nov. 23, 2024

Travel and Adventure

By Fyllis Hockman "So where are we going," I asked my husband. "You'll see," he slyly replied. So be... Read More

All the Same? Jun. 15, 2021

Dan Berger on Wine

Shortly after I began writing a wine column in 1976, a friend teased me about my avocation. We were ... Read More

Liquid Test Drive Jun. 01, 2021

Dan Berger on Wine

Decades ago, visiting wine country was limited to the few areas of the country with wineries. Outsid... Read More

How Temecula Businesses Outwitted the Pandemic May. 30, 2021

Travel and Adventure

By Jim Farber It's an early Sunday morning in Temecula, California. The sun is high enough now to bu... Read More

Tabletop Chemistry May. 25, 2021

Dan Berger on Wine

What do you do when you buy a bottle of wine that, for one reason or another, is not to your liking?... Read More

Fine Wine Is the Pride of Texas Feb. 28, 2021

Travel and Adventure

By Athena Lucero "I love tannat! I've never tasted wine from this grape before," I excitedly comment... Read More

The Amazing V. Sattui Jun. 02, 2020

Wine Talk

American and foreign wine competitions can be, and often are, unpredictable. It's not unusual for an... Read More

Winery to Watch: Acumen Aug. 21, 2018

Wine Talk

In the world of fine wine, where status is typically established over decades of success, Acumen, fo... Read More

Franciacorta: A League of Its Own May. 02, 2017

Wine Talk

Maurizio Zanella didn't create Franciacorta. It only seems that way. When the now-famous wine region... Read More

Quality You Can Take to the Bank Mar. 28, 2017

Wine Talk

Over the past several months, I have recommended a number of exceptional wines from Merry Edwards Wi... Read More

The Roads Less Traveled Feb. 28, 2017

Wine Talk

BOONEVILLE, Calif. — As master sommelier Catherine Fallis opened the annual International Alsa... Read More

The Rise of a Bordeaux Juggernaut Apr. 12, 2016

Wine Talk

BORDEAUX, France — When Daniel and Florence Cathiard first laid eyes on Chateau Smith Haut Laf... Read More

A Postcard From France Apr. 05, 2016

Wine Talk

PARIS — It was a Wednesday night following a long flight in from California. The taxi pulled u... Read More