Author: Nick Antonaccio

In my previous column we explored the numerous elements of consuming wine at its peak – the moment when it reaches the top of the bell curve and expresses its best characteristics. The column focused on the following categories. The

“Aged wine” is a rather open-ended term lacking any specificity to a particular bottling. Your concept of aging may be a matter of a few days – or hours. Mine may be several decades. While one consumer may not have

Matching wine with a particular food dish or menu is one of life’s simple pleasures. But we don’t enjoy wines solely with meals. Often, we are entertaining friends or enjoying wine as a precursor to a meal. What to match

Restaurant wine lists, crafted by today’s wine-focused chefs and highly educated sommeliers, can be the quintessence of the overall experience at a restaurant. Many restaurants painstakingly pair food and wine offerings and invest significantly in well-stocked wine cellars. However, when

The Loire Valley is mesmerizing. It enjoys a storied past of the high times of the French nobility. For centuries, the region provided the epitome of the finest of French life: fine cuisine, exquisite castles and chateaux and elegant wines.

Yes, it’s October, and this is the season our thoughts gravitate to Northeastern ski slopes and holiday travel to the homes of family and friends. I encourage you to take advantage of these remaining days of mild temperatures and still-changing

“A show of hands. How many of you have visited wine-producing countries?” This is how I typically begin one of my wine and food pairing events. A large percentage invariably raise their hands with smiles on their faces and a

In past columns, we’ve explored the rarified air of the high-end wine auctions. Typically, the domain of the 1 percenters, it might seem that these auctions are the playgrounds and/or the battlefields of the rich. Auction houses carefully curate their

The wines of France’s Burgundy region are famous for their unique aroma and flavor profiles – and their relative scarcity compared to worldwide demand. This imbalance has driven prices of the most famous wines into the collectors-only stratosphere. To a

Last weekend my wife and I streamed a movie recommended by our friends, the Gordons. “Widow Clicquot” is the story, told in a rather intimate style, of one of the women pioneers in the Champagne region of France. The presentation