Sometimes when you least expect it, you open what may becomes your new favorite bottle of wine. Very early in the year to pick a favorite for 2010, but this one is way out in the lead. Tags: Cabernet-Merlot New York Seneca Wine Trail red wine Finger Lakes An Atwater Estate Vineyards , Cabernet-Merlot 2007. Alcohol: 13.0% MORE >>

My second choice was a 375ml bottle of white Merlot that was given to me by winery owner Dave Mansfield when I visited his Three Brothers Winery in May. Our visit to the winery just happened to be the same day that the white Merlot was being bottled. The white Merlot has been released and can be purchased at the winery for $17. MORE >>

To continue Riesling month here in New York, I wanted to find something other than my favorites from the Finger Lakes region. Other than ordering on line, it is very difficult to find New York wines other than Finger Lakes and Adirondack wineries in the local shops. Doing so seemed almost impossible. MORE >>

I know the likes of Efes Pilsen and raki but nothing of wineries along the sea of Marmara The room in back was painted crimson and dark and the ceiling absorbed all surrounding chatter Pale ruby in candle-light the Turk showed me dark red fruit and spearmint Emir Cankaya? Tags: Wine Stories wine new york wine prose MORE >>

"If your winery is biodynamic," asks a woman of Nicola Rossi, University professor and board member of the Azienda Agricola Cefalicchio winery in Puglia, "doesn't that mean you have to plant according to the setting of the moon. It turns out he grew up at the winery that was created in 1871. or something like that?" MORE >>