Apparently, wines taste better when sipped under red or blue lights. Green and white lights?  Not so good. Read it at The Daily...

“The market for wine-bottle closures is a $4 billion battlefield where an epic confrontation is now taking place.” - George Taber, from To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle The much-needed discussion about wine closures is upon us and...

Come Monday, October 27, members of the Brunello Consortium will vote whether or not to change the appellation regulations that have governed Brunello wines for years.  Jeremy Parzen of Do Bianchi writes about it here.  You can also follow the Brunello debates on VinoWire.com, an excellent...

Terry Gross interviews Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher over on Fresh Air.  The writers of Wall Street Journal’s wine column Tastings are down-to-earth, knowledgeable, and quite at ease with their chosen love.  They discuss various wines (think grape varieties and regions) ...

On a recent NPR program featuring Nigella Lawson, Ms. Lawson said that food gifts are her favorite gifts – both to give and to receive.  She went on to speak about how sharing food with friends and family around the holidays – in the form of a gift – was a much bigger...

For those who read Benjamin Wallace’s excellent The Billionaire’s Vinegar you understand the necessity (ahem, for some) to authenticate a bottle of wine that is worth, well, thousands upon thousands of dollars.  Could that wine have once been owned by Thomas Jefferson?  Or is...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Wine School of Philadelphia The Big Red Smackdown at The Wine School In honor of Vince McMahon and the WWE Philadelphia, PA. Outgunned perhaps, but not outwitted, The Wine School of Philadelphia’s very own Keith Wallace laid down the gauntlet last...

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