May 30, 2025This is a story about how Nancy Sinatra helped inspire an Austrian winemaker to create our favorite rosé this year.…- May 16, 2025We’re now in a time when people and their governments worldwide are moving into silos. Fear, power and control, forever…
- May 2, 2025Even those of us who love Riesling tend to associate it with Germany. But there is a hearty band of…
February 21, 2025What is it like to taste 149 wines in two days, taking notes on each one, with Waffle House in-between?…- February 7, 2025When Sarah O’Herron and Ed Boyce founded Black Ankle Vineyards in 2002, people told them they couldn’t make fine Syrah…
- January 24, 2025Michael Hirby and Schatzi Throckmorton, owners of Relic Wine Cellars in Napa, which makes complex small-batch wines using old-school methods,…
- January 10, 2025Every January, we smile at the first sightings, regular as clockwork: people in new running outfits, determined this year—after perhaps…
- December 27, 2024We paid $7.25 for a 1978 Château Meyney in 1981. That same year, we spent $12.99 – the equivalent about…
- December 13, 2024Around this time of year, we cheer “Out with the old and in with the new!” If that’s a sentiment…
- November 15, 2024Last year, when we were the MCs at the International Pinot Noir Celebration on the campus of Linfield University in…
