At a three-star Paris restaurant, the wine list will be elaborate, filled with classic wines that are expensive, and the service and glassware will be impeccable. The wine programs, obviously, are one of the features of such restaurants and patrons generally expect a perfect experience (especially people who know a lot about wine), don’t mind…
Tiny Wines Find Home in BC’s Market, as Canadians Consider Reducing Consumption
Wine lovers have growing options on the shelf to enjoy their favourite beverage as producers in B.C. offer smaller container sizes. Multiple British Columbia wineries over the last several years have begun offering their product in smaller, single-serve cans and bottles. Along with making wine more attractive to those looking to toss some in a…
Low Alcohol
The world’s most-consumed liquid is water, and the drawbacks involved with it are so limited as to be utterly obscure. By contrast, there has been an overwhelming controversy for the last several eons about the risks and potential benefits of consumption of all other drinks, from cola to coffee to kombucha. And beverages that contain…
Fresh Wine
“Like fine old wine…” Television news anchors, characters in movies and just ordinary folks often use this phrase or variations of it to imply that wine gets better with age. Some of it does. But the vast majority of older wine is not better for additional time. In fact, most of it is not better….
Grape Families
Most people who drink wine on a regular basis have their favorite varieties. Most of us tend to stick with these grapes for years or decades, rarely straying from the familiar. More adventuresome wine people like trying wines from places they didn’t know existed or from grapes they know nothing about. Depending on where you…
The Wine Options Game
Once you really delve deeply into wine, the passion to buy fine wine while it’s still available and its price hasn’t leaped into the stratosphere can become an obsession. The feeling is both heady and worrisome. On the one hand, we love having great wines in the cellar, improving, but soon we realize we have…
Impossible Causes and Lost Grapes: A Visit to Chile’s Santa Rita Winery
Cradled by arid mountains, reached by a winding two-lane road, everything was peaceful there, in the middle of a Friday afternoon. You would never guess that, just to the north—less than an hour’s drive away—sits the southern reaches of one of South America’s great metropolises. Later, I’ll fight the traffic. But that seems a million…
2023 Wine Bargains
As we enter 2023, consumers who are concerned about inflation or other financial matters of the moment may be thinking about the prices of wine and whether they are going up or down. It has been at least three decades since there was any particular problem in terms of wine pricing, due in part to…
Pop the Cork! Toast to the Season With These Celebration-Ready Sparklers
Festive celebrations call for sparkling wine. From inimitable Champagne to budget-friendly alternatives, here are favorite picks from top sommeliers for all your holiday toasting needs. Domaine du Moulin Methode Ancestrale Brut (Courtesy of Domaine du Moulin) Domaine du Moulin Methode Ancestrale Brut, Gaillac, France Pétillant naturel wines (roughly translates to natural sparkling) have the best…
The ‘Right’ Wine
Wine purists say that the wine you choose should match the food — and some of them can be rather persnickety about this. Others say, phooey: Drink anything you like with any food. Riesling with steak? Hey, if you like it, go for it. It’s your dinner table. Do what you like. But a riesling…
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