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NRA and Wine Mix Things Up in NYC

W.R. Tish
Features
2 min read
Paul Greico, proprietor of several Terroir wine bars in Manhattan and the self-proclaimed “Overlord of Riesling,” is resting comfortably in Mt. Sinai Medical Center tonight after a series of bizarre events. The trouble began—as is so often the case these days—on Twitter. Greico, whose Twitter handle is @spitpaul, tweeted this

Reading Beyond the Lines of Top 100 Lists

W.R. Tish
Features
6 min read
With but one thin page left on the calendar, media of all sorts are chiming in with “Best of 2009” and “The Year in _____” lists. With respect to wine, that means it’s time for Top 100 lists. This year,-read more-

Thanksgiving: Our Wine Holiday

W.R. Tish
Feature Stories
6 min read
Let us give thanks. For the Web. Because thanks to the World Wide Web, America’s homegrown feasting holiday has become, all but officially, America’s Wine Holiday. Gone are days when magazines ruled the turkey roost, staging months-ahead test-kitchen spreads and-read more-

Wines in the Halloween Spirit

W.R. Tish
Feature Stories
4 min read
All Hallows Eve is nigh. Halloween…a night of ghosts and goblins, tricks and treats, frights and bewitching. Boo, yah. How does wine connect to Halloween? Well, the annual crop of cutesy Hallo-wine labels is one way. But I think wine lovers-read more-

W.R. Tish, Founding Editor

W.R. Tish
About
1 min read
W. R. Tish, known in the wine trade simply as Tish, has been writing and speaking about wine and food for more than two decades. As editor of Wine Enthusiast magazine from 1988 to 1998, he re-worked the publication to-read more-