With Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus feasts coming, we visit mass-market, easy-on-the-wallet wines you can pour without shame, and certainly can use as second-plus bottles after you shamelessly showed off by ostentatiously opening your cellared treasure at the beginning of the meal. Continue reading “Go-to mass market wines”
Category: Recent Columns
Cooking with wine
With upcoming holiday feasts, the likelihood of fancier feasts dramatically increases, including cooking with wine. Tips, notes: Continue reading “Cooking with wine”
Wine country fires
The heart of America’s most important wine region went up in flames this fall. Except, that is not exactly what happened. Continue reading “Wine country fires”
Halloween 2017
The first of the great fall harvest celebrations—All Hallows Eve, Halloween—is problematic for a wine column. Continue reading “Halloween 2017”
Restaurant wine hacks
Clever life hack: order second cheapest bottle of wine at a restaurant. Wrong. Continue reading “Restaurant wine hacks”
Cheap wine
You go to a store and see wine selling for less than $5. How is that possible? Continue reading “Cheap wine”
Red wine for white drinkers
October is transition time. The summer days of white wine and rosés fade as heavier fare of harvest feasts and longer nights beckon reds. Continue reading “Red wine for white drinkers”
Wine latitudes
When you stroll down the wine walls at your wine or grocery store, it’s easy to think wine is made everywhere. It is not. Continue reading “Wine latitudes”
Merlot-Pinot Noir
Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond in the movie Sideways was as passionately anti-merlot as he was passionately pro-pinot noir. Continue reading “Merlot-Pinot Noir”
Biodynamic viticulture
Biodynamic viticulture takes organic vineyard farming to a whole new existential level. Continue reading “Biodynamic viticulture”