We were told by some of the wines gurus when we first began writing about wine that when our taste for wine truly matures we will learn to appreciate the cabernet sauvignon. Our answer to them was that we had been there and gone and have graduated to the true beauties...

The Spanish speaking winemaking countries are now in the process of making a big play for our wine business. Typical of the Hispanic psyche, they are doing it honorably but in their own distinctive manner. That distinctive manner is to make wines from local grapes as...

Objectivity; now there is a term that has lost a good deal of meaning in recent years. As wine columnists we try to be as objective as we can and not let our personal preferences influence us … too much. But, we are human and after tasting so many wines over these...

It took the French several hundreds of years to determine what grape made the best wine if they were grown in a certain locations. The cabernet sauvignon and merlot reigned supreme in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France while pinot noir and its white cousin the...

We have spent countless years downplaying the wines of Spain because they had never lived up to their potential. The “Great Wine Blight,” the almost total destruction of the vineyards of Europe in the 1860’s by a small bug, Philloxera, resulted in the migration...

April showers bring May flowers. Ok, we know that the statement isn’t always true; it all depends on the whims and fancies of the gods of weather. What is sure is the month of June always brings weddings and weddings always bring celebrations and celebrations always...