Beat the HEAT with COOL White Wines
It’s hot out…everywhere. So MOST importantly, NEVER leave a kid or a pet in a
June 28, 2025
It’s hot out…everywhere. So MOST importantly, NEVER leave a kid or a pet in a
As wine educators, journalists, marketers, grape growers, winemakers, importers, distributors, retailers, and an entire supporting
Thanksgiving will soon be here, and you’ve probably already decided on your menu. And you’ll
The rising demand for eco-friendly and sustainable packaging of all types of food, beverages, and
The wine industry, broadly, is rightfully concerned–even worried–about the current state of affairs: a glut
So you’re sitting in a lovely, fine-dining restaurant that has an extensive wine list, including
When you’re wine shopping in a store, you’ll usually see “shelf talkers,” those little tags
Let’s first establish something: wine is the fermented juice of grapes. Sake is not wine.
As new wineries pop up weekly, and online direct-to-consumer (DTC) wine clubs multiply, they’re all
Warm weather is here. Very warm. In fact, unprecedented “heat domes” in June and now
Wait a minute. Pinot Noir is a red wine grape, so what is this nonsense
Most wine drinkers, even real enthusiasts, will never buy wine futures–but, some of us of
Three years ago, two MIT Grads created an algorithm that promised to choose “wine you
Steven Spurrier, the English merchant, educator, winemaker, grape farmer, and advocate, died March 9 at
The effect of Covid19 on drinking habits is real: the vast expansion of Direct-to-Consumer wine
Yes, New Year’s day is more than a week behind us, and in any event,
My 2020 wines of the year—a white, a red, a Champagne, and a rosé—are a
Wine Flair’s Wine of the Week, an Australian number called Beyond Broke Road Pinot Gris
Wine-Flair Wine of the Week is Don Zoilo Williams & Humbert Oloroso Sherry, 12 Years
Ok, an unusual name for this Wine Flair Wine of the Week! A play on
Welcome to the Wine-Flair Wine of the Week! Yes, I know it sounds like a
I know you can get this at Wine.com, but I think (and hope) you can
OK so this Wine-Flair Wine of the Week is about a 50-buck wine. And it’s
This wonderful white wine is the product of Randall (Randy) Graham, the quirky and unique
Conventional wisdom is that Primitivo was brought to California around 1968, and scientists at UC
I walked onto a mediocre liquor store in New Brunswick, New Jersey the other day.
I couldn’t say goodbye to a month characterized by miserable heat waves (Or were they
Wine and food pairing is more an art than a science. So VIEW OR DOWNLOAD
I don’t actually know the answer to that today. This Black Box Sauvignon Blanc Chile
There are roughly nine weeks left of “traditional” summer—Memorial Day to Labor Day—and hopefully you’ve
It’s June 16th, which means I’m supposed to be at the beach house of my
I don’t know about you, but a quick scroll down my Facebook page a moment
Italy is (a) wine country. So of course, surely, you’ve heard the names of these
California Cabernets, especially from Napa, are well known for their power, richness, tannin, high alcohol…and
I’ve seen a lot of ads on Facebook lately for the Firstleaf wine “club.” The
So how’s that glass of Seyval Blanc I just poured you? What d’ya think of
When I received an invitation to the Slow Wine 2020 US Tour stop in New
The Barolo region of Itlay’s Piedmont is home to one of the world’s most distinctive
On January 27 I spent a couple hours at NYC’s Gotham Hall at Broadway and
I’ve been a customer of Last Bottle Wines for years, and it’s been mostly a
This is an old Wine-Flair.com post but it offers a lot of good advice for
I’ve just tried two very different but very delicious Paso Robles gems. Here they are:
Here are some great sparkling wines from France, Italy, USA, Argentina, and South Africa. I
I’ve recently written about wines from Bolivia, but in looking for them recently I came
This piece is a few years old, but I’m re-running it because I think #Champagne
One of the ways I’ve learned about wine, oddly enough, is to read wine books.
Viognier is among the world’s most aromatic whites, with a rich, viscous fullness, often a
I don't think it's divided the "wine world," only the much smaller "winegrowing/winemaking" worlds. In 24 years, not *one* consumer has ever mentioned or asked me about cultured vs. natural yeasts.
For years, a passionate debate has divided the wine
world: should winemakers embrace the scientific
control of commercial yeasts or rely on faith in the
wild, indigenous yeasts from their own vineyards? Our
latest “Vine to Wine” column by viticulturist Romain
Bocchio from…
A truly great human being. And one of the greatest friends to animals who ever lived. 💔
Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees whose work was captured in more than 40 documentaries, has died. She was 91.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jane-goodall-dead-chimpanzees-1236536481/
This is total nonsense. This is every day.
It's International Coffee Day!
#InternationalCoffeeDay #CoffeeDay #InternationalCoffeeDay2025
When a @CountyofSonoma winemaker charging $250/bottle and $150/tasting worries about new customers but balks at $1 for marketing, well...you know...(@WSJ's headline "Raise Prices" is typical BS)
I lived in lovely #Morocco ("Maghreb" or المغرب) as a @USMC Embassy Guard before my love of #wine truly hold, and back then, there wasn't much to behold. Times have changed! Vive le Maroc! 🇲🇦
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