I drink quite a bit of red wine from Chinon, but mostly the wines of one producer, Bernard Baudry. This wasn't always the case. used to buy and drink wines by many different Chinon producers, but I learned after a while that I like Baudry's wines much more than the others, and now I rarely stray. Is that what I've become, with Chinon? MORE >>

What could President Obama bring Prime Minster Berlusconi as a gift for the host of the G8 summit? Berlusconi, an affluent and powerful man, can already get pretty much whatever he wants delivered to him poolside, after all. Obama chose to present him with something he might never have had before, a gift of American wine! Reduce, reuse, recycle! MORE >>

The title of today's Wall Street Journal article " Luxury Wine Market Reels from Downturn " by Jim Carlton and David Kesmodel, pretty much speaks for itself. The nuts and bolts of this story is that Americans are still drinking wine, they're just spending less. The secondary theme seems to be how producers are going to weather the storm. MORE >>

I mentioned last week that I attended an Israeli wine tasting of Tishbi Wines.  In addition to the wines there was some gourmet accompaniments such as artisan olive oils & fruit preserves which are “produced from the actual Tishbi wines according to a range of varietals“ I’m not sure what to say other than I was [.]. MORE >>

A good friend and his wife recently went to Amsterdam for a wedding. My friend's birthday is July 4th and they would be going out to dinner at a highly recommended restaurant called Bordewijk. He emailed me from Amsterdam to ask me to suggest wine from the list, something he would enjoy on his birthday dinner. MORE >>