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It was around 11:30am on a Tuesday, I think. The restaurant's dining room had been converted wine tasting style: tables organized arou...

The more I casually taste current release California wine, the less I find worth drinking. The more I explore - in a targeted, more careful...

Drank these recently at some local dive bar: 2007 Laurent Tribut Chablis 1er Cru Cote de Lechet Great creamy minerality and citric fru...

Indulge me, if you will, in detailing a pairing involving a few of my current passions: amontillado and sichuan recipes from Fuchsia Dunlop...

One of the most exciting stores I had the opportunity to check out recently in Seattle was not a record shop, not a new wine shop specializi...

Frappato is of course the light and bright, generous but not overly fruity red wine made from grapes of the same name in southwestern Sicily...

[A few days ago, my tasting group met up to taste some German Riesling. Each of the wines were covered with a brown bag. The line-up was, a...