Not that it matters in order to appreciate the wines - they taste and feel good, and they makes great company for fresh seafood, cheeses, and other foods. recently went to Vins du Jura , a tasting featuring 20 producers from the Jura region of France. In the hands of a good producer, sous-voile wines are completely delicious. MORE >>

Daniel remembers his grandfather as a small boy and would help him in the winery. As we taste the delicious wines (the family produces over thirty wines, we continue to chat. As we taste it, Daniel jokes that his original vision was to make an award winning "Brunello" style wine. The story started three centuries ago in Italy. MORE >>

In an effort to help sales beyond the top wines of the region, local trade authorities in Bordeaux have proposed a four new price categories: Art, Exploration, Fun, and Basic. Thus stores (and bars ) can use the system for dispensing tasting sized pours of expensive wines, amortized over days. Tags: tasting sized pours AFP ]. MORE >>

Stephen Bitterolf, the Wine Director at Crush , conceived of this event with an eye towards the famous La Paulée Burgundy dinners where everyone competes to bring the finest bottles and people walk from table to table tasting each others' wines. But this was as fine a wine as any that I tasted on this evening. wonderful old nose. MORE >>

Unmentioned in the brief story, but maybe people were on to the scheme and that helped account for the rise in home winemaking during Prohibition? Tags: American wine tasting sized pours SPIT: a move upmarket. The Chilean wine industry attempted a concerted move upmarket a few years ago. To wit: exports were up a whopping 17.6% NYT ]. MORE >>