Body - Light

Expectations and experience tend to soften excitement in wine, muffling the high pitch of greatness to meager moans. It can be difficult to savor the high highs once a sensory resume has been established, just as the...

Winter White Wonderland   The Cotes Du Rhone wine region is a place of mystery to many American wine drinkers.  If pressed, your average wine lover might be able to specify that Rhone is actually an area in France but...

My wife and I stopped at Monticello during our week-long trip to Napa this June. I must confess that I am a neophyte when it comes to CA wines, having consumed mostly European wines in the past. These wines display a very...

Just wanted to give you all a bit of a rundown of what we ended up doing in Sonoma and beyond. Our trip didn't occur exactly as we thought it might, but we were prepared for that, and had a perfect-ish little vaca. We...

Oh you poor people - if you have to buy what the PA liquor folks select, you really are at a serious disadvantage! OK so if you want to shop in NJ, here are a few wines you might try - at the lower end, there is a series...

Wines, much like people, tend to be lumped together in broad categories based on over-arching generalizations and limited samples sets. It’s just second nature to presuppose that a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc will taste...

As many of you know I am very enthusiastic about the latest Barolo releases. The  best wines of the 2005 vintage will probably eclipse the best that 2004 has to offer. One small problem is that with the sales of premium...

Ciao Lara I ve been attracted from this post as I am Prosecco's producer so I will try to say what I think about this matter being fair. Lots of people compare these two wines. I believe that they are two sparkling so...

I hosted a study of the Veneto for a group of wine lovers this week. It came off without a hitch and I’m extremely happy with almost all of the wines. My idea was to use only ingredients that someone living in the...

We had an abridged PTP tasting this week. For the first hour or so of our tasting we sampled a quartet of Cabernets. Sadly two  other bottles that were to be included in this particular, Sonoma Centric flight were corked...