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I love, love, LOVE Champagne!  However, there will be times when one is forced to move to Schitt's Creek, where these prized sparklers c...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Truth be told, the whole year feels like a long stretched-out Halloween, with forest fires and pestilence being the marks o...

It was a smoke-filled day with forest fires raging wild along the West Coast. I was in back-to-back meetings, dealing with my own "fire...

One of the funnest parts in hobby winemaking is designing wine labels. I am not creative by myself, but as a group, we usually come up with ...

For better or for worse, a side benefit of being on social media is that I'm kept apprised of the latest wine fads. It appears that ther...

Last month, I wrote about  the first part of the Rioja experiment . The experiment serves to answer two questions raised from the book, Maki...

Is Rioja a great wine? Matt Kramer, a veteran wine critic, once made a bold claim to the contrary. In his book,  Making Sense of Wine , publ...