Category: Seasonal Recommendations

Thanksgiving can be high anxiety wine time. Continue reading “Thanksgiving wines” →

Labor Day weekend cometh. Even if autumnal equinox is more than two weeks away, the weekend is easy excuse for a last garden gathering or final shorts-and-flip-flops party before kids trek back to school and hazy-lazy-crazy days fade to memories. Continue reading “Labor Day” →

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Bing Crosby ringing in your ears. Yuletide carols sung by a choir, folks dressed up like Eskimos—Christmas, season for loving nostalgia. Continue reading “Christmas mulled wine” →

Thankfully, Thanksgiving is easiest of wine times. Continue reading “Thanksgiving” →

Halloween tempts you into cloyingly kitsch novelty wine plays. Trouble: clever names and campy labels often are inversely related to wine quality. Continue reading “Halloween” →

Labor Day: bittersweet holiday. Summer’s wrath wanes. Kids back to school. Your baseball team drives for playoffs—or not. Football kicks off. Continue reading “Labor Day” →

Patriots patronize American wines on July 4th, but which should a proud patriot pour? Continue reading “July 4th wine” →

Cinco de Mayo is over, but Tex-Mex food is a fiesta year round. Continue reading “Mexican food and wine” →

As Christian families gather to celebrate the empty tomb and Jewish families the passing over of the 10th plague in Egypt, they traditionally serve one of two dinners: a roasted ham or some cut of lamb. Continue reading “Easter” →

St. Patrick’s Day evokes images of a dram of Irish whiskey, a pint of stout. But wine? Continue reading “St. Patrick’s Day” →