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Wine has become an integral part of the American dining experience now being enjoyed at many home meals and no longer the sole province of the restaurant experience. The real problem is that it can prove to be rather expensive. Wine prices, like almost everything in...
For centuries, France ruled the roost in the wine department and it was the French Champagnes that were the best known, most costly and most sought after. So opulent were the wines that the czars and royalty of pre-revolution Russia ordered that Champagne sent to them...
It’s over, finito, fertig, terminado; in plain, simple English, it’s finished. No longer does a sometimes confused or befuddled wine lover have to suffer through the uncomfortable task of selecting the proper wines that best accompanies the dinner he or she is hosting...
The war goes on in its full force and fury, as it has for centuries. Thank goodness that it is not a shooting war, but a war of opinions. The war is to determine who makes the better wines, the historical wine homeland of France or the modern upstart of California....
In Europe, where weather conditions have a dramatic and occasionally devastating effect on the quality of their wines, vintage dating is everything. Too wet and there is mold and mildew; too warm, high sugar, low acid and flabby fruit. The question arises, are the...
We are all familiar with the popular wine varieties; chardonnay, merlot, cabernet sauvignon and sauvignon blanc. There are others that are becoming more familiar such as zinfandel, riesling and gewürztraminer. We move around these varieties, picking up nuances here...
About Me
High Vacuum Engineer: Senior Technical Adviser and Feature Writer for Modern Photography Magazine (1967-1973), co-founder of Together Vineyards, an experimental vineyard in South Florida which was the southern most registered vineyard in the Continental United States. Co-Author of several books on Home Wine Making, Home Beer Making and Distillation of Spirits. Co-owner of Camera & Video Repair Institute in Sunrise Florida.