There has been much ado in the blogosphere, of late, in response to the Federal Trade Commission's press release announcing its Final Guidelines Governing Endorsements, Testimonials. The press release, the one document most bloggers have seen, seems to indicate that-read more-
To age or not to age? With wine, the question is hardly simple—the complications are practically countless, and the risk/reward quotient naturally intensifies over time. Personal taste, of course, is akey to determining if one should even be holding wines for the-read more-
Welcome to my state, New Jersey, home to crowded highways (with countless exits), billowing smokestacks and a treasure trove of jokes (and truisms) illustrating a certain incivility (sarcasm if you will). Now allow me to introduce you to another side-read more-
Some people go ga-ga shopping for shoes or handbags; others go gonzo for wine. The point is that shopping for something you love can and should be fun! With that in mind, Palate Press would like to shine some light on-read more-
Here's a news flash: not all American wine comes from California, Oregon and Washington. Really. That's the message that Dave McIntyre, wine columnist for The Washington Post, and Jeff Siegel, a Texas wine writer known as The Wine Curmudgeon, wanted-read more-
Ah, the humiliation of it all: Statistics recently released by the European Union (referenced in this USDA report on the European wine market) show that the United States has passed France in exports of wine to Great Britain. The British-read more-
Things are rough out there. And not getting much smoother by the day now, are they? But we still gotta eat and drink. So, one might argue that in the absence of a quick surgical fix to our economic ills,-read more-
How Eliminating One Simple Word Can Make the World of Wine a Saner Place Minerality. It is one of the most commonly used words to describe both red and white wine, and yet it remains one of the most confusing.-read more-