Wine Tonite!

Long gone are the days of the 30+ volumes of Encyclopedia Brittanica that used to line your parents’ bookshelves back in the day. today, one only needs to “google” for information available right at your fingertips. So, I was interested in what wine terms folks have been googling the most in the first quarter of [...]

It’s that time of year again, where we get to acknowledge some well-deserving leaders and visionaries in this world of wine-blogging.  No, this is not an April Fool’s joke, though I know a few bloggers who like to “act a fool” but, alas, that is not an award category this year.  Instead, here are the categories [...]

  In current global circumstances people and organizations are shelling out less money for good causes, which is understandable yet unfortunate at the same time.  It’s times like these when many are in need the most.  Yet, here is a project that’s been around since 2003 named “Vignes san Frontiere,” or vines without borders, in [...]

Sparkling wine has it tough in our household.  The wife hasn’t had very good luck with finding one that she likes and I have only begun to scratch the surface of the many selections available out there: Grower Champagnes, Prosecco’s from Italy, Cava from Spain, etc.  Hell, I even stumbled across a sparkler from Brazil [...]