What's on David Burke's fine-dining menu? lot of in-your-face discounts. From The Wall Street Journal by Katy McLaughlin "On one menu, he crossed out prices of wine and listed new prices with the term "sale" -- a rarely seen word in fancy restaurants." Chef and restaurateur David Burke's business sounds like a financial-crisis perfect storm. TRY IT! MORE >>

Last night I was being witchy, predicting that Bernie's company would, realize that Champagnes are not vinyl impregnated bags easily reproduced in China. Yes, I said, one of the upsides of the economy, would sell the wine brands off. The hope would be that they would be sold off to someone who didn't not view them as brands. MORE >>

For enophiles, one of the great travesties of the past few years has been the rise of a new puritanism in France. Yes, the country perhaps most associated with wine has, paradoxically, also seen increasing amounts resistance to wine from some parts of society. In my book Wine Politics , I’ve compared this (French?) Well, not entirely. MORE >>

It is almost cliché to say that Burgundy is a crap shoot, every bottle a roll of the dice. But that's because it's true. Price and quality can have a rather distant relationship, and there can be great variations in climate just within one village. Which part of Volnay was hit by hail in 2001? And it's just as much of a guessing game in the end. MORE >>

Patients who drank before diagnosis had reduced risk of relapse or death, study finds From U.S. The researchers looked at more than 500 women with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and found that, overall, those who drank wine before their diagnosis had a 76 percent five-year survival rate, compared with 68 percent for those who didn't drink wine. MORE >>