Many a wine drinker knows Alsace as the oddity among France’s wine regions. There is a certain otherness about the wines from the perspective of a French (or Francophile) wine drinker, owing…
The average person accepts many occurrences, events, and items that defy explanation. We can accept that we are unique in this universe, that life exists for some reason only on our planet…
So they told me that most Italians will carafe this sparkling wine, this natural Prosecco called “ProFondo.” How interesting to sample the next wave in Italy’s sparklers, wherein the producer both bends…
The wine business is, of course, a business. Most of us got into this profession because we were aesthetically-minded individuals, and it’s sometimes easy to forget the extent to which commercial considerations…
When it comes to dessert wine there are many factors one can include when choosing from the array of sweet wines. Price, quality levels, sweetness levels, pairings, grapes and production methods are…
We all know Champagne as one of the most prized and collectible wines in the world. While the most prized bottles from, say, Burgundy are crafted to be precise expressions of a…
