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Each year, the wine world eagerly awaits Wine Spectator’s “Top 100” list.   Since 1988, the magazine’s editors have looked back over the wines they’ve reviewed over the previous 12 months to rank the 100 wines that most impress them …

What do you want to do for Thanksgiving? my husband asks me. Not much, I say, since it’s just the two of us.  Violet Hill Farms sells those free-range, organic turkeys. We could try one, I guess. They’re probably pretty …

‘Tis the season to party.   With 2014 just a few weeks away, holiday party season is in full swing. So hosts everywhere are assembling menus, fretting about guest lists, and blowing their budgets on decorations. Fortunately, selecting wines doesn’t …

Sensing an opening for their quality wines, Chile has been moving smartly in the American market to consolidate their wine sales gains and find new markets to present their Cabernet, Chardonnay and Syrah. Their “home-town” grape, Carmenere, is getting a reputation as the …

Home for the holiday is a choice many Americans make.  The biggest travel date of the year is Thanksgiving Day as relatives and friends assemble with great food, wine and conversation, the centerpiece of this day to count your blessings. But …

“When I wrote the book,” explained wine merchant Kermit Lynch, “I thought the oenologists were going to take over.”   We were chatting about Adventures on the Wine Route, Lynch’s seminal tour of France that can be found on every …

With the weather turning quite chilly here on the east coast, I crave the simple pleasures of the season – the comforting aroma from a pot of soup simmering on the stove; an afternoon curled up near a fire with …

Great wine begins in the vineyard somewhere between January and March as the season matures.  If all goes well and the season ends as it did in 2013 in Sonoma, there will be a collective sigh of relief and another legacy of …

If you are at all a wine lover, you have been to one or more of the many wine events that are staged every week at wine bars, restaurants, hotels, parks and wineries.  Well, you too can be a wine host, …

Just in time for Christmas giving and enjoyment is Southern Italian Desserts by Rosetta Costantino. With seventy-five classic desserts worthy of sumptuous holiday feasts, to snacks for surprise guests, and cookies for Christmas giving, Ms. Costantino, a native of Calabria, …