Wine and wine accessories are welcome gifts for the Christmas-holiday season. Since possibilities are almost endless, some suggestions in various price ranges: Continue reading “Christmas gifts”
Category: Recent Columns
Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon
If you drink red wine during this season of feasts, you likely drink cabernet sauvignon or merlot or a blend of the two. Continue reading “Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon”
Wine pricing
How much do you spend on a bottle of wine, and how do you compare with your fellow wine buyers? Here are statistics from recent survey of 340,000 U.S. wine individual buyers: Continue reading “Wine pricing”
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving happens tomorrow. It has been celebrated since Abraham Lincoln established it in 1863, has been on the fourth Thursday of November since 1941, so it should not come as a surprise. Continue reading “Thanksgiving”
Go-to mass market wines
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”
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”