Here is the story of my very first wine epiphany: The year is 1990. 47 editions of Wine Blogging Wednesday have come and gone. speak of the monthly online community wine tasting and sharing event created by Lenn, the New York wine guy at Lenndevours. Four years. That's ancient in the world of wine blogs. Food=bad, rock=business. MORE >>

This book was published in 1990 and it continues to be on most shortlists of great wine books. I had a birthday in November and a friend gave me a fantastic gift - Matt Kramer's "Making Sense of Burgundy." actually have read almost no wine books, so my entire list is a short list. But I must say, this book is wonderful. Or does it? MORE >>

million cases; by 1990, they hit three million cases. W$Jay was slumming it with zinfandel recently. He had a passing remark about the origin of Sutter Home white zin. Thanks to the Regional Oral history Office at Cal’s Bancroft Library, we have access to the first-hand account of Bob Trinchero, then winemaker at Sutter Home. Mistake. MORE >>

In the end, certain that I would be wrong, I said "I think it is a southern Rhône wine, late 1990's." The other night my pal Peter came over for dinner. He's one of those former Brooklynites who packed up his wife and kid and moved out of the city to somewhere in the Hudson Valley. He has a decent sense of what I like to drink. He likes pork. MORE >>

The 1990 was not. The other night I did something that I have never done before, and most likely will never do again. drank a Marius Gentaz Côte-Rôtie. Gentaz never made large quantities of wine, and he stopped making wine after the 1993 vintage - he retired and his nephew René Rostaing took over the vines. Sounds like a lot, right? MORE >>