May 31, 2024A vitis vinifera, Cabernet Franc is one of the world’s great grapes, of course, a fundamental building block of great…- May 17, 2024We’ve been drinking wines from Alsace for decades and have especially enjoyed those from Domaine Paul Blanck in Kientzheim. So…
- May 3, 2024These are the times that try people’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in these crises, shrink…
- April 19, 2024Whenever we have a wine that strikes us deeply, we know there’s a story we want to hear. We have…
- April 5, 2024We recently met Rachel Allison, 34, who has a doctorate in wine flavor chemistry from Cornell University. A paper she…
- March 22, 2024We were at the final dinner of the 2024 Wine Writers Symposium in Napa recently when we met Jerry Seps,…
- March 8, 2024This is what OTBN is all about – life, friends, love and wines that tell stories, hold memories. We invented…
- February 23, 2024Where do you get advice on what wine to buy? There was a time, not long ago, when many people…
- February 9, 2024MFEO isn’t an acronym we toss around lightly. To be perfectly honest, we’d never even heard of MFEO until we…
- January 26, 2024We created OTBN in 1999 (a quarter-century ago) because readers kept asking us the same question: I have this one…
