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Are millennials wine illiterate?

W. Blake Gray
Features
4 min read
Are millennials illiterate? Uninterested in where wine comes from? Or are they wine's Greatest Generation? My working assumption has been the latter: that people in their 20s are willing to spend money on wines from anywhere, and are more concerned with drinking something interesting than impressing their peers.   But

Saving Caruso’s Chickens

Daniel Demers
Features
2 min read
In September of 1919, Enrico Caruso, along with his new bride, arrived in New York harbor aboard the passenger liner Giuseppe Verdi. Suffering from a cold, reporters noted he was “blowing his nose three times a minute” as the ship was moored to its dock in Jersey City. The 46-year-old

2005 Chateau Lasségue

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Great year, great wine, and (for a 2005 Bordeaux) a great bargain. The color is still very dark, just starting to lose the bright brilliance of a young wine. The nose is multi-layered, deep black cherries and boysenberry, black currant and tobacco. allspice and nutmeg. It is powerful and young

2010 Chateau Tanunda Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Barossa

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Enjoy this juicy, slightly candied, and well balanced Aussie Cabernet with red meat, from burgers to ribeye. The nose shows black currant, milk chocolate, coffee, and briars. Blackberries and black cherries lead, followed by chocolate and coffee. The small amounts of shiraz and cabernet franc show, with hints of smoky

2012 Elena Walch Gewurtztraminer

Becky Sue Epstein
Wine Reviews
1 min read
After tasting Elena Walch’s wines with her some years ago, I have had the utmost respect for her as a winemaker. However, the samples I’ve been getting in the last few months have had a disturbing bitter note to them. This gewurtztraminer has a classic rose aroma, and a lovely gold

2012 Muralhas de Monção Vinho Verde

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
The nose shows grass, lemon-lime, and grapefruit aromas. The palate leads with soft lemon lime flavors, the bright acids counter-balanced with ginger snap. Fresh, bright, and just slightly frizzante, this is made for picnic blankets and lazy summer afternoons. Drink with fried chicken. Recommended. 87. Who: Adega de Monção What: Alvarinho plus

Wine Bath and Beyond

Daniel Demers
Features
3 min read
“That wine has been in the bath room for one week, and you is the thirty-eighth person that bathed in it.” A story about bathing in wine was first published in 1859 in numerous U.S. periodicals. Variations were republished over the next three decades. At first blush, it seems a

The Wine Guy in the Real World

Ben Carter
Features
4 min read
Wine chats should sound more like The Office than Sideways I can talk about Japanese efficiency methods all day but most people doze off after 30 seconds.  However, when it comes to wine, people are instantly and totally engaged.  Particularly if there’s the chance of me sharing some samples with