Brainwashing is any tactic – psychological or otherwise – that can be seen as subverting an individual’s sense of control..

Ahem, just a friendly reminder to all male readers: This is Valentine’s Day week. Yes, flowers are nice, but shiny..

This is a continuation of my last column with more impressions of current vintages from some of the classical growing..

I have just returned from almost two weeks of traveling throughout most of the classical wine-growing regions of France. I..

Forget everything you know about Muscadet. Not that Muscadet is actually a household name, but that is what I had..

It has been some time since I wrote about wine tasting or wine dinner etiquette, so this is a good..

I asked my son to clean his room the other day. After a few minutes, he came to tell me..

Happy New Year! It’s time again for my predictions in wine and food for the new year. This is going..

Merry Christmas! I appointed myself Santa’s personal wine assistant. And as such I was able to take a look at..

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The boundaries between dry and sweet wines are much more blurred today than I can remember. Moscato d’Asti is the..

The holiday season is in full swing, and if you’re like me there will be Champagne flowing at every party..

I’ve recently been asked about the extremes of oenophilia that I have experience through my career, so I thought I..

This is Thanksgiving week! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. Christmas is more important, but Thanksgiving does-n’t come..

I just finished teaching the introductory course for the Court of Master Sommeliers along with three fellow Masters, and I..

I would like to think that everyone has a seminal moment or epiphany in their lives when they realize just..

Halloween is here, and I was thinking about the bloodiest, gutsy red wines that I could recommend. But that sounded..

I was sitting next to a campfire on the beach after a day of playing in the sand and water...

There are some questions that have no right answer. Like when a wife asks a husband, “Do you know what..

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past nine months, you probably already know that this is..