Category: Delicious

'I’ve long been singing the praises of dry rosé, especially for summer quaffing. These aren’t the cloying “blush” wines of old. I’m talking about pink wines that are juicy, refreshing and dry or barely off-dry.'

'…like many lapsed Chardonnay lovers, I sometimes I need a reminder that there actually are Chardonnays on the market that won't leave oak splinters in my throat.'

'Wine merchants and sommeliers across the nation peered into the bottoms of their Riedel crystal bowls to offer their predictions. As you might expect, white wines dominated their thoughts.'

'In the search for an affordable and crisp California white, I ventured to my local wine shop and quickly zeroed on a 2007 Sauvignon Blanc from winemaking entrepreneur Joel Gott—because I knew the name and liked the $13 price.'

'While there is a broad range of Italian whites available these days, from arneis to soave, Gavi to grillo, pinot grigio has a prominent place on the spectrum because it is widely grown and easy to find on store shelves in this country. Pick out a few of them and chances are you’ll find at least one that stands out.'

'I don't think you can find a better, widely available, food-friendly white wine for summer sipping than sauv blanc. It's a grape that is successfully grown all over the world, but manages to express itself differently in each place.'

'The European Commission announced on Monday that it had dropped plans to allow rose wine to be made by mixing red and white wines, a victory for producers in France and Italy.'

'Somewhere in the haze of polemic wine punditry, where every old idea can be given a fresh coat of paint and proffered as original thought, Napa got caught up in the overripe wine discussion, lumped in with the hegemony of “Parker’s Palate,” given “poster boy” status.'

'It's June, the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is only three weeks away, and a lot of wine lovers who usually prefer hearty, more robust red wines are turning to something more, well, refreshing.'

'I have in my attic a heavy leather suitcase full of rather fine ponchos that my children won’t let me wear (too embarrassing). Three floors down, in the cellar, there’s a scattering of old South American wine bottles including a treasured Peruvian empty. I drank its contents on a rainy night in the Andes while ostensibly looking for homicidal Maoist guerrillas.'

'At the reunion, I had two wine-related tasks. The first was to lead a wine tasting—a cheap wine tasting, the university requested—and the second was to select a red and a white—really, really cheap, the university requested—that could be served at any of the campus-wide events during the reunion weekend.'

'I’ve fallen in love with a grape variety that’s entirely new to me. I can neither pronounce nor spell it with ease in its native language but am told that its name translates as Bullseye, which strikes me as a pretty good name for a red wine that is round and fruity, with so much charm that it makes you smile when you taste it.'

'If there's an epicenter of Pinot fame in California, that particular slice of Sonoma still has traction.'