December tends to be a good month for wine drinking. Everyone reaches into the cellar for the good bottles to help celebrate the passing of another year. Here are the wines I drank in December that have not, even in passing, appeared recently on this blog. Such an incredibly beautiful wine, and so accessibly priced. MORE >>

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Sort of like the cock fighter of the wine world. looked around for some Rene Mosse oxidized wine to whet my whistle. This piece could have been so good, it could have exposed a great issue to a mainstream audience about wines green washing.hey! The article erroneously put sustainable and natural wines in the same stable. MORE >>

Wine fits in here too. There are plenty of rules one can use in understanding the universe of wine - places, grape varieties allowed, methods of elevage, and so on. There are people out there, you've probably met them too, whose appreciation of wine seems to derive from an elevated level of scholarship - they treat it like a science. MORE >>

I recently had the distinct pleasure of participating in the Wine & Spirits Burgundy tasting panel. In one session we tasted Meursault, 21 wines from the 2007 vintage. In another session we tasted 40 red wines from the 2006 and 2007 vintages, all from the Côte de Nuits. love the Wine & Spirits tasting format. MORE >>