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The 8 Wrong Ways To Drink, Serve And Enjoy Wine

W. Blake Gray
Features
3 min read
Is there a "right" way to drink wine? I'm not sure. But there are wrong ways. Some might want to deny this because we don't want to be exposed as wine snobs. But the prevailing American culture around wine is far more prescriptive than that. The food media constantly tells

Wine is more than just a product

Simon J Woolf
Features
3 min read
2014 might just be the year of the fruit-flavored wine. If you've missed this trend, just do a quick Google search – fruit-flavored cocktails with wine as their base have been gaining massive market share over the past three years, with growth of “aromatized wines” at 70% a year, compared

Are millennials wine illiterate?

W. Blake Gray
Features
4 min read
Are millennials illiterate? Uninterested in where wine comes from? Or are they wine's Greatest Generation? My working assumption has been the latter: that people in their 20s are willing to spend money on wines from anywhere, and are more concerned with drinking something interesting than impressing their peers.   But

Saving Caruso’s Chickens

Daniel Demers
Features
2 min read
In September of 1919, Enrico Caruso, along with his new bride, arrived in New York harbor aboard the passenger liner Giuseppe Verdi. Suffering from a cold, reporters noted he was “blowing his nose three times a minute” as the ship was moored to its dock in Jersey City. The 46-year-old

2005 Chateau Lasségue

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Great year, great wine, and (for a 2005 Bordeaux) a great bargain. The color is still very dark, just starting to lose the bright brilliance of a young wine. The nose is multi-layered, deep black cherries and boysenberry, black currant and tobacco. allspice and nutmeg. It is powerful and young

2010 Chateau Tanunda Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Barossa

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Enjoy this juicy, slightly candied, and well balanced Aussie Cabernet with red meat, from burgers to ribeye. The nose shows black currant, milk chocolate, coffee, and briars. Blackberries and black cherries lead, followed by chocolate and coffee. The small amounts of shiraz and cabernet franc show, with hints of smoky