It’s a tough question to answer and it is a question that pierces straight through into our subconscious where answers are elusive. Yet, you should have an answer to the question. Anybody interested in wine that searches out information (online or otherwise) is inundated with an incomprehensible array of facts
Pssst. Here is a secret nobody will tell you: Nearly all of the holiday gift guides in magazines and online are the byproduct of a year’s worth of PR-related samples and press releases. They are less a stamp of careful editorial approval for readers and more of a year-end cleansing
Quick! Word association time: When I say “October,” you say what? For most, the answer is “Halloween” and, perhaps, our perspectives tinted with more recent events, you might also say, “Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Over the last several years, it-read more-
A fantastic wine that will beat the pants off of Cali Cabs with significant price multiples. A strident example of a wine achieving balance between fruit and earth and short-term drinkability versus long-term cellaring. The complex nose of blackberry, dusty-read more-
Four and ½ years after Granholm vs. Heald, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to create wine shipping liberty for all, wine shipping is still a tangled mess requiring a consumer movement to gently remind those that we put-read more-
In Part II of Paul Mabray's review of the best wine-related iPhone application (see Part I), he reveals his Top Five recommendations -- a list that includes wine apps. that yield significant value and functionality. The best advice is to not-read more-
Wine lovers of all stripes often wonder out loud about the astonishing amount of wine available in the U.S. market. Some estimates put the the number of available wine SKU's (an individual wine made available for sale) at over 65,000.-read more-
Many mainstream wine writers would have you believe that credibility and the ability to analyze a wine is a tenured position at Wine Critic University, available only after having earned a PhD in the Vinous Arts, an honor bestowed after-read more-