In the “way back when;” you know, the past that historians love and school children hate, wine came in assorted sizes of bottles. The 750 milliliter bottle became the most common here because that was the size the French used and at that time our wine industry was...

Bargain hunters attention, the latest vintage of Alamos wines from Argentina has arrived on our shores and they are better than ever. Alamos wines have always been popular here because of the quality they offer at very reasonable prices. Their current releases are...

Do you remember Fred MacMurray? He was the star of a television classic, My Three Sons which ran from 1960 to 1972. He was also a top Hollywood personality before the TV series starring in many first class movies. While many of us know of his carrier, very few of us...

There are enough myths, fallacies and misinformation about wine to intimidate or scare off the average buyer and we think it is about time to blow the top off of them. Most of these wine bloopers have been around for decades, some for centuries. Let’s start with wine...

A short time ago we wrote about the new sweet wines from Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi. We can assure all of the people who enjoy the other, drier wines of Woodbridge, that they will still be available and if possible, better than ever. To usher in the warm seasons...

We believe that it must be very intimidating to a wine buyer strolling down the isles at their favorite wine vendor where shelves display a myriad of wines with strange colored labels, in bottles of all shapes and sizes each seeming to scream out “buy me.” Perhaps...