Heartland Wine
For Easter, friends invited me egg hunting at Jowler Creek vineyard in the state of Missouri. My sprinting friends found 14 eggs between them, including coupons for free wine. (I…
New York Wine
In upstate New York I visited Kevin Hall, proprietor of South Side Wine and Spirits in the city of Poughkeepsie. He generously poured servings of Monte Da Ravasqueira 2013 Rosé from the Alentejano…
New Wine Scoring System – Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
During a recent weekend in Bordeaux, I was leveled by flu - knocked out on a Friday night and bedridden for days. When my mind came around I was soaked…
California Dreamin’ – and Good Wine
For a few weeks I visited friends living near California's coast who love wines: Californian, French, Italian - all. They love to socialize and share. North to south - here's…
Sonoma’s Rockpile Ridge – Hot Terroir
An hour north of San Francisco sprawls Sonoma County - with a million agriculturally rich and beautiful rolling acres, seventy miles of coastline along the Pacific Ocean - and 14…
Fresh Chilean Wine Appellation for the Maule Valley
Winemaker Andrés Sánchez just wrote from Chile. He shared news about a new appellation in the Maule Valley that applies to wines based on the Carignan grape (Andrés and I met…
Hong Kong’s Dynamic Wine Scene
My friend Kathy Fu who works in Hong Kong provided photographs for this post, as well as information about Hong Kong itself – basic but intriguing stuff I simply never…
Searching for Wine in Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small nation tucked into the mountains north of India and east of Nepal. It has a population of less than 700,000 people and no…
Christmas Eve Wine from Vietnam
The flight from Saigon to Hanoi takes two hours. In late December, the journey will take you from t-shirt, shorts, and sandals weather to where you'll need to pull on…
Honeymoon Mead in New Mexico
Years ago, friends and I drank liters of full-bodied beer on a hillside known as La Collina D'Oro (The Hill of Gold) in the Swiss province of Ticino above the…