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Last summer, I wrote  My Wine is Too Oaky , a post on oak and its influence on wine. Much of what I knew about the interaction of oak and wi...

I knew very little about South African wines besides the occasional bottles of Pinotage that I received as a gift or from my wine club. Howe...

March is Washington Wine month. For Seattleites, this means thirty-one glorious days of discounts on Washington wine at participating groc...

I remember my first wine tasting class. My notes went something like this: Appearance - Red/Gold/Pink  Nose - Smells like wine Palate ...

I am on a diet. I need a wine to pair with my diet. Or a diet to pair with my wine. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to. One of the go-to dishes if I wan...

Jose Lopez Bertran came from generations of winemakers, who had borne much hardship for the love of their craft. His grandfather, Joseph Ber...

I am fascinated by yeast, especially the species known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae . S. cerevisiae  is responsible for alcoholic fermentatio...