Almost seemed that I may never get back on a Finger Lakes Wine Trail after the past year. I've been wanting to get back on the Cayuga Wine Trail for over a year now and definitely wanted to visit some wineries again and some that I have not yet been to. That's the time most of the wineries open the tasting rooms. MORE >>

And we also remembered the wine service, and the service was a case for the Wine Cop. maybe he did but certainly he didnt mean the wine dept!) I said, thumping my index finger on a spot in the wine list that shone like a beacon of truth. It was definitely corked, but no one seemed to mind. Read on. Sorry. Cooked? MORE >>

The beginning of the end is when natural wines makes its way into a trend story, no? Meningers Wine Business Journal, ever see it? was at first amused then perplexed at the article by Ned Goodwin on the Japanese craze for natural wines. After all, is the term an abbreviation for biologique, or organic wine? 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 >>

Probably because this is a difficult region to grow wine grapes - it's cold and ripeness does not come easily. In the late 1990's inspired wine making came to Jasnières and Coteaux du Loir in the form of Eric and Christine Nicolas who own and operate Domaine de Bellivière. Well, they taste very good, sometimes great. MORE >>