Not everyone is familiar with the history of Hungarian Wines; but there is a long wine tradition in that country with some of the most famous sweet wine around. As Hungary comes to the foreground, more are becoming familiar of this tradit [...]
Freud struggled to find an answer to the question “What does a woman want?” Ninety-odd years later, some in the wine industry think they know. According to the new “girly-wine” brand marketers, we want to be skinny [...]
BORDEAUX, France — Bordeaux winegrower Chateau Latour will pull out of the traditional "en primeur" or futures market, a vital part of the region's commercial strategy, in a move geared to Asian markets, industry sourc [...]
Encouraging Aussies to drink a local drop Stephen Doyle's hands are stained red from picking grapes, but the winemaker has made the quick 260km dash to Sydney from Orange, so he can showcase his Bloodwood wines at the A+ Australian Wi [...]
For a lot of years I have heard all manner of words and combination of words to define a wine. When I was in college and could only afford the less costly wines, we would invent rather crass words to describe what we had been drinking. Ov [...]
If you would have asked for my professional opinion on Minnesota wines a few weeks ago, I would have politely told you that there are much better things to drink. In fact, I was asked this after a wine and food pairing class I gave in Upt [...]
SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--House Band Wines will launch its first-ever 375ml single-serve flex wine pouch at spring and summer music festivals in the U.S. beginning this month in Austin, Texas. The upstart brand sees [...]
Leave it to the French to speak of wine and love in the same sentence. The Gallic love for wine gives inspiration for a variety of sensual indulgences. It is hard to rival the experience Champagne delivers to the senses. (All Champagne [...]
ROBERT M. PARKER JR., the powerful wine critic, called it “one of the major scams being foisted on wine consumers.” Other wine writers have joined in, though perhaps with less vitriol. Mike Steinberger, in Slate.com, referred [...]
If you want to put your money where your mouth is in this precarious age, an investment in good wine pays dividends far faster than a musty stock certificate. But if you want to know exactly what’s in the bottle, you have to put bli [...]
Vidal-Fleury Côtes du Rhône, France, 2009 (£8.99, or £6.99 if you buy two bottles, Majestic) A trio of warming winter reds this week kicks off with a sunny Côtes du Rhône blend of grenache, syrah, mourv [...]
This week’s cold snap made it plain that we’re now fully in the grips of winter. The freezing temperatures and dark days have settled in, which affects more than just our choice of outwear. For wine and food lovers, the frigid [...]
In case you need inspiration for choosing a sparkling wine for tonight, here are three wonderful values for you to choose from. They are all top quality sparklers made the traditional “Champagne’ way where the secondary fermen [...]