Shiraz and Chardonnay account for half of the vineyard acres planted in Australia. For a quick taste of how the other half drinks, check out a piece that I wrote for Forbes.com. And if you’re feeling summery, surf on over to the James Beard blog for five of my summer wine picks. Ah, perhaps we need an impossible wine-place pairing: the office! MORE >>

I recently had the excellent fish and chips at Doyle’s in Sydney. Unfortunately, I wolfed it down before snapping a pic but I found another similar one on flickr. We haven’t done one of these “impossible&# pairings for a while. So have at it: which wine would you pair with fish and chips? Or is it… impossible ?!? MORE >>

The whole concept of Pinot under $20 is enough to make some Burghounds shudder. But it is a topic of recurring interest to everyone at the Dr. Vino World Headquarters with its high concentration of frugal pinotphiles. recently had the $19 Nicolas Potel 2006 Bourgogne rouge and found it a great value, lean, old world pinot. Hofstatter) as well. MORE >>

I have no idea what occurred between the early 1980's and present in the case of New York Finger Lakes red wines. honestly tried many of them between 1973 when I moved into the region until, I gave up on them around 1980. After that, I basically stayed with my favorite European red wines. Her favorite was a red table wine from Heron Hill Wines. MORE >>

Winemaking is a complex and varied process. From the hands off approach of letting the natural yeast in the grapes (or more specifically on the grape skins MORE >>