2012 Redux: Wine Snobs, Unite!

W. Blake Gray
Features
1 min read
Palate Press has selected our top ten stories from 2012 and will publish a 2012 Redux article each weekday until January 4, 2013. These stories highlight our featured columnists, widely recognized contributors, and most popular works published through the year. The Palate Press editorial board hopes you enjoy these highlights as we look

Everything Sparkles on New Year’s

David White
Features
2 min read
Champagne sales pop every December as party hosts stock up for New Year’s. This isn’t surprising, of course. There’s nothing like popping the cork on a bottle of bubbly when the clock strikes midnight. As the big night approaches, it’s worth learning the differences between sparkling wines to figure out

2012 Redux: Tasting Wine, Broadly Speaking

Meg Houston Maker
Features
1 min read
Palate Press has selected our top ten stories from 2012 and will publish a 2012 Redux article each weekday until January 4, 2013. These stories highlight our featured columnists, widely recognized contributors, and most popular works published through the year. The Palate Press editorial board hopes you enjoy these highlights

NV Enza Prosecco DOC

Becky Sue Epstein
Wine Reviews
1 min read
With its festive red cap and small, silver-accented rococo label, this packaging is an obvious choice for the Holidays.  Though it’s called “extra dry,” inside the curvy bottle is a dry prosecco that, when opened, wafted out hints of toast several feet away. Pear notes in the aroma were transmitted

Cognac, It’s All About the Barrels

Mary Cressler
Feature Stories
7 min read
Walk through vineyards in the region of Cognac in the fall, and you will experience vast hillsides filled with nearly ripe grape clusters just a few short weeks from harvest, typical of most wine producing regions in the northern hemisphere. Walk through a cognac production facility, however, you will experience