Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon is still doing interesting and useful things much of the wine world would rather not. Read: http://www.nytimes....

    This is the cover of my new novel (some slight variations possible), due out from Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin's Press) early in t...

    Collecting wine can be dangerous to your health. I’m not talking livers here, but minds. I know of a doctor who began collecting wi...

     …Wine has an animal life. Wine suffers a heaving birth. It has a rough, groping childhood. It develops into adolescence. Then, if i...

Fanciers of red wine have a broader choice today than at any time in history, and a better chance of pulling the cork on a well-ma...

     You’re probably thinking four hours is too long for lunch. But there was a lot to do: drink some elegant Raymond Vineyards 2011 r...

This crepuscular photo is actually of a bright, lightly oaked 2010 chardonnay from Smith-Madrone, the current release from a now old-l...

Whatever happened to legs? They never lose popularity in the flesh, continually evolving in women's fashion magazines, but they haven...

Very cool and eye-catching, even better if that watercolor was crafted with wine. Jim Caudill You trying to look like James Joyce or...

Attractive décor and lots of locals (including Carl Doumani, owner of Quixote, one of the most pleasingly provocative wineries in NV, de...

      Here's one of the covers proposed for my new novel. (The generous quote from Tracy Kidder is slightly off, since the novel's n...

Thanks for sharing! I would love to try all these amazing wines!                                                          Jasmine

You didn't discuss my Italian white wine grape of choice, vermentino. Grown up and down the Ligurian coast, and in Sardininia and elsew...

    Confusion could be best exemplified by an American wine drinker (including me) looking at a shelf of Italian whites. The awesome v...