Most Recent Wine Articles and Reviews
What Wine Do You Serve With Cupcakes
The rules of what foods go with what wines, are written in stone, centuries old and unfortunately, often stringently observed. What about our modern foods?; foods that did not exist when those iron clad rules were made up. We know that the Declaration of Independence...
The Numbers Game Comes to Wine
And so it finally came to pass. After centuries of winemaking the producers seem to have run out of items or names to decorate the labels on their bottles. We have seen wines with labels that were beautiful, some were exciting, some were just plain stupid, some...
Cru Bourgeois … French Wines, With Love
Ever since Roman times, the Bordeaux region of France had been renowned for its wines. One of the major problems that Americans had with the French wines was that to really know what you were drinking you had to learn a dictionary full of lip twisting French terms and...
More Greek Wines To Challenge Your Taste Buds
It was a dark and stormy night … so to brighten the situation, we opened some wine; this time the wines we opened were Greek. Not to get into a history lesson, but the Greeks have been making wine since the toga was the fashion expression of the day. Greek wine has...
Vin Santo … A Style of Wine Older Than Old
What usually comes to mind when the Greek island of Santorini is mentioned; boom, big boom, humongous boom. Santorini was the site of the largest volcanic eruption to have ever occurred in recorded history. You probably didn’t catch it on the evening news because it...
HandCraft Artisan Collection
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...