Favorite Activity: Roaming around between picnic tables outside Frank Family, begging for snacks and being rewarded by our friendly winery guests Forgivable Flaw: You can always tell when Bristol ...

Sauvignon Blanc is historically connected to two French winemaking regions: the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. It most likely originated in the former, which today still makes single-variety expressions ...

Wine Spectator senior editor Bruce Sanderson is blogging from Italy's Piedmont region, where he is visiting growers and tasting the new vintages that will be released in the United States in 2014. I ...

Two years ago, the world watched in shock as Argentina's economy crumbled into chaos. After defaulting on $95 billion in state bonds, the country went bankrupt and foreign investment fled. Poverty ...

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Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Today's conversation is about consistency in style, which is often overlooked or minimized in evaluating wineries and winemakers. A winery that routinely makes wines that are similar in style and ...

A friend was in town and wanted to meet for dinner so we decided on Fuleen Seafood in Chinatown. I brought a few bottles of wine to enjoy with the excellent selection of seafood and a few poultry and ...

Years ago I discovered, quite by accident, that red wine can taste just fine with chocolate. It was at a dinner where the dessert, one of those dense, not-very-sweet, runny chocolate cakes where the ...

Despite being a food professional for 28 years, I never thought I needed a fancy outdoor grill, even when I lived in California. I usually bought a basic gas grill from a hardware store and dumped it ...

Twelve glasses of red wine sat before me on a warm Thursday morning this past week. The field included six New Zealand wines and six Bordeaux from recent vintages. The task: Guess which ones were from ...

Time was, Rosemount and Lindemans were near-iconic names. Their wines introduced a great many Americans to how good Australia can be. They offered modestly priced wines that sang a lilting tune of ...