Well it's time to try a new wine, at least new to me. White Springs was the first booth I visited at a recent Winefest and the last one I visited that day to pick up what I believed were the best whites at the festival. Tags: New York white wine Seneca Wine Trail Gewurztraminer Finger Lakes Great Buy! MORE >>

tasted through their lineup at the recent tasting of their New York distributor, David Bowler. Still, the wines are terrific values considering that apartment-dwellers with no wine storage can pick up beautifully aged bottles with ten, twenty or forty years of age on them. Spanish wine wine picksLopez de Heredia. MORE >>

Sometimes when you least expect it, you open what may becomes your new favorite bottle of wine. Very early in the year to pick a favorite for 2010, but this one is way out in the lead. Tags: Cabernet-Merlot New York Seneca Wine Trail red wine Finger Lakes An Atwater Estate Vineyards , Cabernet-Merlot 2007. Alcohol: 13.0% MORE >>

But you’ll need to click through for the importer stock pick in the story! Tags: French wine New York City tasting sized pours SIPPED: upgrading label info? Discussion ensued over at wineberserkers whether there was a loophole in the statement.) SPIT: bling champagne. SIPPED: solitude. Tasting Room ]. The Pour ]. WSJ ]. MORE >>

David Hirsch poured me a sample of his 2008 “The Bohans-Dillon&# pinot noir at the recent trade tasting of his New York distributor. Tags: wine picks I had heard about the fires in Sonoma 2008. But I had never tasted them. And guess what: it had a smoky notes swirling around the dark cherry fruit. MORE >>