This post is not so much about wine, but about my two new dogs and a new wine company named Two Dogs. Actually it's Due Cani Cellars. The name Due Cani translates from Italian to Two Dogs. First, let me tell you about my two dogs. Toby (male Yorkie) and Priscilla (female min. Toby is about four years old and Priscilla is about two. MORE >>

This past Tuesday I stopped in at the “Vibrant Rioja&# Grand Tasting.  The tasting was help this year in NYC’s “City Winery&#.  There were over 50 tables, each representing a different producer,importer or distributor of Rioja wine.  Each table seemed to have at least 4-5 wines, and some had even more.  There were reds, whites [.]. MORE >>

I couldn't believe I never met Savio Soares. mean, everyone in the wine world in NYC is buzzing about this portfolio. So we were to have dinner with Ariel, who sells wine for him Neil, The Brooklyn Guy for dinner to correct that. When I walked in, I said, "You're Savio," and he said, "You live here? thought you were married to a French winemaker." MORE >>

Last night I stopped by Il Poeta to have a light dinner and asked Luca for a suggestion for a wine-by-the-glass. he recommended the Stella Italia Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. It has a light to medium weight, with aromas of smoky cherries, and ripe strawberries with a toasted wood note on the palate. This is a perfect illustration of "less is more". MORE >>

Drawing on the New Yorker profile of Fred Franzia, champion of wine under $10, last week we pondered the puzzle of why so few low-cost wines–say under $10 (or, perhaps, $15)–made in America are just not tasty. Over 30 of you had your say in the post from last week. So I decided to put the question to several people in the trade. MORE >>