This is going to be something unusual for us; a mean spirited column. To begin with, let us set the ground rules. We are wine writers not wine critics. We write about wine in all of its facets and often give our opinions based on over thirty years of experience. These...

Humility is a trait that is frequently overlooked and must occasionally be relearned. We have recently had such an incident and were taught a valuable lesson about prejudging anything When we were first introduced to the wines of Ecco Domani, we believed, based on our...

We hereby formally resign from the ABC Club. After years of faithful membership we remove ourselves from this organization, better know as the Anything But Chardonnay Club. For many years we forced ourselves to sample a host of inferior and inadequate chardonnay wines...

El Jimador is among Mexico’s top producers of tequila. Their Tequila Blanco is one of the favorite ingredients in what has become America’s most asked for mixed drink, the Margarita. The Margarita came into existence in the 1930’s and...

Van Gogh; we all know it is the name of a great Dutch painter but did you know that there is a vodka that carries the same name? But why did the producers adopt the name Van Gogh? The distillers said that they picked this name because “Van Gogh was the name of a...

Ending a good dinner with an after dinner drink rather than a sweet desert has become the “in” thing to do. After dinner drinks are sweet and satisfying while saving you the intake of a whole bunch of calories and forcing the letting out of a belt a few notches...