With that in mind, I convened the Brooklyn Blind Tasting Panel to take a closer look at inexpensive Provence red wines. Such a great group for this tasting - Rosemary drinks loads of minerally white wine and has a tough time with big red wines like this. He thought it got better and better over the course of the evening. MORE >>

2) Wait until everyone has had a chance to taste the wine, then inform the group. 3) Wait until everyone has had a chance to taste the wine, hope that some one else informs the group, if no one does, inform the group yourself. That's far from a majority, of course. The host serves a wine that is corked. MORE >>

There are of course other rating systems, and their effectiveness is also debatable. There may be people who prefer the smell and taste of Yellowtail, or who cannot distinguish between then two, and those people are welcome to their preferences and should go forth in peace and be happy. But I do have some thoughts that I want to share. MORE >>

Histamine, of course, is the chemical that sets off allergy symptoms. Wine and beer also contain sulfites, another group of compounds known to provoke asthma and other allergy-like symptoms. As pollen showers down this time of year, a question that many allergy sufferers may have is whether alcohol exacerbates sniffling and sneezing. MORE >>

would llke to say all were fabulous --  yet will modify this by saying all were clean and precise and from that point it is personal taste.  Many people from all over the world came here just to taste from this select group. As a group, these were basically terroir-focused producers who marched to the tune of their own drummer. MORE >>