So if you have a wine that was fermented with its indigenous yeasts, you are pretty sure as to not suffer from whiplash if you approach the first glass of the wine without reading the fine print on the label before tasting- which is kind of hard to do when one is tasting blind. asked him six questions; he replied with over 10,000 words! MORE >>

This is not about label of vintage swapping. This is about the fraudulent use of a meaningless stamp of approval, as useful as lets, see, a California Cabernet that has the U.C. Goldstein spoofed up a restaurant, created a reserve list that he cherry picked from a collection of mostly low scoring Spectator wines. God love her. MORE >>

The article begins by discussing some of the influencing factors for wine enjoyment, from varietal familiarity & easy to discern label to price & score. And the second of "buddies at a steakhouse" enjoying a California Cab & then not having the same level of enjoyment when drinking that same bottle with pasta at home. MORE >>

Hermon" wines, but the GH Winery has a 2nd label you should all familiarize yourselves with - GAMLA. Rogov gives the 2004 the best score of the bunch, but any will do the trick at $14 or so. am not going to go into ALL kosher wines but I will discuss where my passion lay, Israeli wines. Buy it up, drink it and be proud. Galil Mountain. MORE >>

OK, the title is a little old-man-pun style, and the article was written citing some recent research done by Standford Business School and California Institute of technology (regarding how price influences people's appreciation of wine).but deduct 3-5 points from their scoring of the wine. like blind tasting for a multitude of reasons. MORE >>