Are you stuck in a wine rut? Still drinking your go-to wine from last year? Or worse, from the last decade? In today’s pressurized work and social environment, thinking outside the box may not seem all it’s touted to be.
Read MoreThe ever-growing popularity of sushi can be a challenge for wine lovers. Each sushi offering has its own unique characteristics, which pairs differently with alcoholic beverages. Matching wine with sushi is becoming more common with the proliferation of sushi bars
Read MoreThere are nearly 80 million baby boomers in the United States, 26 percent of the total population. This age group is aging, fast. Over 10,000 boomers turn 65 every day. This very influential group has set new standards for lifestyle
Read MoreI’m away this week, squeezing in a bit of end-of-summer time with family. Below, I have reprised a Grapevine column from August 2011. Here we are in the midst of the August doldrums. It may be great if you’re baking
Read MoreIt’s the dog days of August and I’m wilted from the heat we’ve been experiencing. I’ve decided for this week’s column to reprise a previous nugget I wrote for you. Hope you enjoy it. Here are random factoids, choice nuggets
Read MoreA number of Western European countries have centuries-old thriving wine industries, established many years before the United States was a glimmer in the eye of the Founding Fathers. The United States is a latecomer to the cultivation and production of
Read MoreThis past weekend, as I sat at my keyboard contemplating the 616th published column of You Heard It through the Grapevine, an urge struck me to indulge in one of the topics of my previous focuses. So it is that
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Celebrity wines have become highly popular in recent years. A phenomenon of the last quarter century of winemaking in the United States has been the advent and increasing popularity of wines endorsed by, or oftentimes owned and produced by, artists
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Ah, Champagne… Historically referred to as the wine of kings and the king of wines, Champagne has a storied and checkered past, often as much by happenstance as by astute winemaking. It has become a fabled, preferred beverage for special,
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I’ve previously written columns on sensitivities to white or red wines. I’ve also written a column fostering the production of wines without the intervention of those produced in science labs. I’ve even written a column on the medicinal benefits of
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