Category: Wines

Wine for Mother’s Day

Public relations people around the world are always thinking up “clever” ideas for magazine and newspaper writers that will help the promoters sell the products they’re hired to hawk. This spring, the PR folks who are hardest at work know that Mother’s Day is May 8, so the pitches most writers see are for flowers,…


Hungarian Wine Is Above the Radar Once More

Hungarian wines could have been a household word today, but two world wars and 40 years under communist rule forced a major pause on this once-formidable wine-producing country. “Wines from Hungary were considered the best in the world!” a wine store owner excitedly replied when I inquired whether he carried any. He didn’t that day…