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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This popular red grape originated in Burgundy but has spread across the New World. Like its white Burgundian counterpart Chardonnay, Pinot Noir is early-budding, early-ripening and thin-skinned. The ...

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 ...

Frank Mitolo and his winemaker, Ben Glaetzer, dropped by for lunch last week to talk about how they make the Mitolo wines in McLaren Vale. Several of their bottlings have jumped out at me in my blind ...

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 ...