Grapevine

Restaurant wine lists, crafted by today’s wine-focused chefs and highly-educated sommeliers, can be the epitome of the overall experience at a restaurant. Many restaurants painstakingly pair food and wine offerings and invest significantly in well-stocked wine cellars. However, when celebrating

Remember the old quip about a customer in a restaurant? “Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.” “That’s all right. We won’t charge you for it.” The modern version of this seemingly trite joke could easily take place in the

“What can I do with an opened bottle of wine if I don’t finish it?” I am (very) frequently asked this question. We all have encountered this dilemma (some less often than others). The good news is that you have

  As I pen this column each week, I frequently come across surveys that attempt to capture a plethora of wine-related data and statistics. Given my career background in finance, I tend to pause, review, assess and draw an inference

This weekend we celebrate two uniquely American traditions, both on the same day. On Sunday we will gather with friends and family to be entertained by the most-watched sports event of the year, Super Bowl LIII. And what better second

They seem to pop up each time I’m surfing the wine-centric internet: the numerous reports on studies that support or refute the benefits and detriments of wine consumption. Each time I read these – regardless of the source – I

This week we are traveling to the final destinations on our virtual tour of Spain’s six major wine regions before heading home. We motor in our Spanish-produced Tauro Sport Coupe rental to the far northern coast and the sixth region,