With all the hype around global warming you’ve suddenly become a lot more environmentally aware. You’re already sleeping on unbleached cotton sheets and flaunting your PETA shirt while riding your bike to the supermarket to recycle your soda cans, but it just doesn’t seem to be enough. Isn’t there something else you could […]
You’re freezing indoors, listening to the pouring rain and gearing up to drink a big fat red when, all of a sudden, it’s sunny and 90 degrees out. Since drinking most reds on a hot summer day will suck your soul out through your tongue and gums, you have to get your alcohol fix somewhere […]
The thought of Argentina evokes images of a hot, dry landscape, a big, juicy steak simmering on the parilla, and an inky-red glass of Malbec. The Malbec varietal is now vastly recognized as […]
Some say the grape is named for the Persian city of Shiraz, an ancient place of flowers, wine, and poetry. They say it was brought to France by returning crusader Guy de Sterimberg, who cultivated his vine cuttings in solitude. But to those who say such things, I say bullocks.
To be sure, the exact […]
Each year - particularly since the 1970s - Australian wine has been growing in popularity With Mediterranean-like climates, the continent has ideal growing conditions. […]
Whenever I’m discussing Champagne I always think of the scene in Wayne’s World when the snooty guy schools Wayne and Garth, along with millions of adolescents about the difference between Champagne […]
