Back in April, I wrote here about what seemed like a changing tide in the Wall Street Journal's wine coverage, when Food & Wine magazine alumnus Lettie Teague, and "Bright Lights, Big City" author Jay McInerney replaced long-time wine columnists John...
I recently got back from Cahors, France, where I was covering the International Malbec Days Festival. Cahors is a beautiful little town situated in the Southwest region of France on the meandering Lot river, and the Malbec Days event more-or-less overwhelmed...
Summertime and the livin' is easy; fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. It is officially the first weekend of Summer 2010, and it couldn't arrive any sooner. This Memorial Day, find a body of water, any body of water, put on your bathing suit for the first...
It's been my experience that people who's parents are hardcore into one thing, tend to shy away from it drastically. If your mom is a hippy, you're a Marine. If your dad's a banker, you're an abstract artist. My parents drink exclusively Cabernet Sauvignon...
Quick, without looking it up on Google: can you name the state that is home to the Outer Coastal Plain AVA (American Viticultural Area)?Here's a hint: it's in the U.S. (I know, that one's obvious...).Give up?The answer: New Jersey. Southern Jersey, to be a bit more...
I was kind of thinking that my post for this week would just be that title and a blank page. Pretty clever no? But then I realized that was way too nihilistic. So...what to do, what to do... Should I snobbishly review some wine? Take a firm stance on something...
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