Category: Delicious

'Wine on the Web is beginning to drive us crazy. Wine merchants are increasingly splitting into those who take online shopping seriously and those who don't — with an increasing number, unfortunately, falling into the latter category.'

' … while you might think that an organic wine is a gimmick, I just tasted four examples of great organic wines that are very good values.'

'The great wines of France have a well-earned reputation for being expensive, but look just beyond the most prestigious regions and there are lesser-known wines with amazing value to be discovered.'

'Because every day feels more uncertain, we need our everyday wines — something tasty, straightforward, and cheap in the glass — to signify the day's end. For this, it's useful to maintain what I call a "working case" for your home, a boilerplate selection of wines to have on hand for everyday sustenance.'

'With Passover starting tonight and Easter on Sunday, this is a good week to think about pairing wine with festive meals.'

'What makes wine on tap not merely good but brilliant? It’s not the tap, it’s the keg.'

'The tulips on Park Avenue are ready to burst forth, the baseball season is about to begin, and I am drawn to German riesling.'

'Thanksgiving is supposed to be the holiday that drives wine types crazy, given the variety of food, the assortment of flavors at the dinner table, and the challenge in pairing all those differences into some coherent whole. But Easter makes Thanksgiving look easy.'

'Red wine drinkers on a budget have a lot to choose from these days.'

'Recently, a proliferation of relatively inexpensive bottlings from Oregon has popped up in local wine stores.'

'It sounds odd, but the current economic crisis could be considered a boon for wine drinkers looking for value.'

'It's about bargain wines listed in the spring edition of Wine Press Northwest.'

'It's not smart to judge a book by its cover. But with wine it can be a different story.'

'Champagne is world famous but Italian spumanti are conquering an increasing slice of the market and seducing wine-lovers all over the world.'

'Especially in today’s economy, I’ve become really troubled with the prices of wines from big name producers or top scoring labels, but I am not willing to give up drinking delicious wine.'

'This crisp, light-to-midweight wine has been likened to Riesling or a combination of Viognier and Sauvignon Blanc.'

'My top picks for premium whites just hitting shelves are two Burgundian stunners …'

'Few wineries have managed to reinvent themselves on a scale such as this, which explains why sitting down to a tasting of Gallo wines across the brand spectrum can be very revealing.'