Dear Santa: I have been a good boy this year. I drank up all the wine in my glass because it would be a waste to leave it when there are poor people in the world going around sober. As I sipped, I pondered. So I have a few ideas
The designer and producer of a highly rated wine suitcase has accused a major wine gear purveyor of stealing his design. Barry Wax, who conceived and produced the original VinGardeValise (VGV) in 2014, alleged that the new Vino-Voyage (VV) wine suitcase - designed and marketed by Wine Enthusiast – is
The wine is an appealing pale pink-gold, reflecting the color or the grape. To begin, there’s a woodsy aroma, that hints at the wine’s Oregon origins, then tints of stone fruit on the palate. A medium body, with a hint of bitterness and acidity on the palate that indicates it
By Becky Sue Epstein Northern Michigan is starting to look like any other orchard-turned-wine-country around the world, with Old World-style wineries as well as modern buildings dotting the landscape. Wineries here are crafting classic vitis vinifera wines from grapes grown right on their properties, wherever possible. The tasting room staff
Sparkling wine has continued to out-effervesce just about any other sparkling wine in the short two years since our last English Sparkling Wine report (below). Everything we said before is true, only more so, and with bells on. Even the French Champagne producers are jumping on the bandwagon, with Taittinger
With vineyards located inside a World Wildlife Preserve in Sicily, Gorghi Tondi’s owners are focused on sustainable and organic agriculture. Even the "cork" is 100% recyclable: Nomacorc's zero carbon footprint line, made from sugar cane. These grapes are grown around Lake Preola, very close to the Mediterranean coast in Western
by Becky Sue Epstein A wine for pizza and brownies. Really. When you go in to pick up an upscale pizza and spy those giant cookies and brownies stacked on the counter right next to the cash register, this is the time to get the brownies. After sampling several of
I still remember my first Sagrantino wine. It was a relatively rare Sagrantino di Montefalco Passito. And I found it to be a very tannic sweet red wine -- hard to drink for someone who was used to the gentle silkiness of my native Recioto della Valpolicella. Fast forward a