August 8, 2025We recently took our own advice and opened a wine that we had considered too special to open. We know.…
March 7, 2025When we invented Open That Bottle Night in 1999, to persuade people to finally uncork the wine they’ve been saving…- February 7, 2025When Sarah O’Herron and Ed Boyce founded Black Ankle Vineyards in 2002, people told them they couldn’t make fine Syrah…
- March 8, 2024This is what OTBN is all about – life, friends, love and wines that tell stories, hold memories. We invented…
- January 26, 2024We created OTBN in 1999 (a quarter-century ago) because readers kept asking us the same question: I have this one…
- March 10, 2023Wine should be joyful. If you ever think it becomes routine to people in the industry, we’d urge you to…
- February 24, 2023Only the oldest of Miami old-timers will remember that there used to be a Grand Union on Coral Way. It…
- February 10, 2023We created OTBN in 1999 for a simple reason: When we started writing about wine, the question we received most…
March 12, 2021Given the state of the world, we never would have guessed this, but Open That Bottle Night 2021 reached new…- February 12, 2021We’ve heard it over and over during the past year: “Now every night is Open That Bottle Night!” In the…
