Low Cost Wine: The Less The Wine Costs – The Better It Is?
The first yuppie poet once said, “The more it costs, the better it is, and that’s the bottom line.” He was talking about art at the time, but he could have been spouting off on people’s opinion of wine. Is wine better when it costs more Researchers at Cal Tech did...
The Best Food and Wine – French Wine Country Lunch
A few years ago, I turned a corner and started planning my meals around what food would go with whatever wine I wanted to drink. It was weird and kind of an interesting change. Most people operate the other way. I’d guess most every restaurant does it the other way,...
The Theory Of The Witness Wine
When my mother told me I would have to use math when I grew up, this is exactly what I was hoping she meant. The Math A normal wine bottle contains 750ml of wine, or a little over 25 ounces. Our extraordinary math skills tell us that is equal to five glasses of...
Grand Cru Wine Drinking Day In Burgundy
There are 32 Grand Cru vineyards throughout Burgundy. In one hot day day, during the summer of 2015, we sampled wines from nearly half of them. The day started like every day really should; with a croissant and coffee at La Villa Fleurie, our quaint little bed and...
Ultimate French Rosés and Whites
For me, summer reminds me of a time when cool, light, crisp wines keep me reminiscing about trips to the South of France. I still drink some reds, but French whites and rosés are what I prefer when it gets hot out and my meals drift toward more vegetables and seafood....
Italian Wine In California
Why would anyone in the Napa Valley grow anything other than Cabernet Sauvignon? It’s a solid question. Napa is one of the great Cabernet producers in the world...maybe the greatest. Farmers get nearly $6,000 per ton of Napa Cabernet grapes, twice that of, say,...
The thing about organic wines
I guess it all started with the strip search at San Francisco International Airport. The scanners going through security picked up a microbe or something on me, even though I had followed every rule including taking my shoes and belt off. Maybe it was the gum I was...
48 Hours in the Willamette Valley
Since the first grape vines were planted in 1965, the Willamette Valley has become one of the most influential wine-producing regions in America, not just in Oregon or the Pacific Northwest. It has developed the power of Pinot Noir production and, with its New World...
A Rosé by any other name
If you drink wine in public, and let’s be serious, everyone should, then you have probably seen the increase in wine glasses being filled with a questionable light pinkish liquid lately. Wait! That’s not red wine. Wait! That’s not white wine. What is it? Must be white...
If you can’t be with the wine you love, honey, love the wine you’re with.
Maybe it’s a Stephen Stills thing. You know the song, right? “If you can’t be with the wine you love honey, love the wine you’re with...love the wine you’re with.” That is how that song goes, isn’t it? Well, it should. Keep that song in the front of your mind as you...
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