Do you ever wonder when trying a new wine, if that first taste or bottle may not quite tell you what that grape is all about. What I mean is, when you open a varietal that you have never had before, should you reject that grape because that bottle was not enjoyable or do you embrace that wine because it was a good or very good wine. Recommended. MORE >>

Here we have a Cabernet Sauvignon from the Colchagua valley in Chile, produced by DOMAINES BARONS DE ROTHSCHILD-LAFITE who took over the Los Vascos estate (Los Vascos meaning The Basques, in honour of its Basque origins) in 1988. There is much going on here for under $10. This wine has a deep and dark ruby red color. MORE >>

“Welcome!” says vivacious Ana Pizzorno, with a bright smile and flashing dark eyes as she picks me up at the Montevideo airport. It had been a long flight from New York, and Ana’s enthusiasm to show me her vineyard makes it all worth it. to designer sunglasses. Did I mention she was also the mother of two teen-aged children? Finish is dry and crisp. MORE >>

Timothy Egan has a piece up on the Opinionator column of the NYT with a provocative thesis on the correlation between teetotalism and presidential leadership: “The nondrinkers, at least over the last century or so, were terrible presidents.” But in gazing at the drink preference of Mt. ” American wine leaders and liters MORE >>

It's finally spring in New York. That two weeks in early April when all of the sudden it was 75 degrees and the cherry trees blossomed early and everyone wore shorts, no, that wasn't spring. That was more about the great floods that will surely come my friends, as the weather all over the world gets weirder and weirder. Anyway, now, it's spring. MORE >>