Wine bloggers, writers, and wine bulletin-board junkies from as far away as San Francisco, North Carolina, and Wall Street made the pilgrimage to this, the Mecca of industry tastings. This is not complicated wine, nor does it seem to be a good candidate for the cellar, but it is perfect in its simplicity. Le Bourg was not shown. MORE >>

Dr. Frank’s vision, knowledge and determination are credited with elevating the New York wine industry from a state of happy mediocrity to a level that today commands world attention. In 1962, merely a decade after arriving in America, Dr. Frank founded Vinifera Wine Cellars. am just interested in the cold wine. MORE >>

Utah’s Atty General calls a beer industry lobbyist who drafted his recent testimony on HR 5034 simply “a scribe or secretary.&# [ WSJ ]. SIPPED: one more reason to die with an empty cellar. SIPPED: wine on tap. Last week, New York magazine called self-serve wine tanks brilliant and highbrow. NY mag ]. myfoxhouston.com ]. MORE >>

Don't come into the wine industry because it's crazy." was a cellar worker, punching the cap, doing everything like that. My father kicked him out of the cellar and said to him "My job is to make wine, your job is to taste it, not to tell me how to make it." When I took over in 1994 there were five vintages in the cellar! MORE >>

It has come up a few times in (offline) discussion that I have been in recently: do people still cellar wine? But the rate may actually be higher than with young wines since the cork industry has taken some steps to reduce cork taint in recent decades.) Is mature wine relevant? And, most pointedly, why do young people hate mature wine? MORE >>