Category: wine

Value Wines

Americans who consume domestic wines on a regular basis are always looking for decent values, if not bargains, and what they choose depends on how they consume wine. Those who are satisfied with any generic white wine, or even a generic red (such as burgundy with a lowercase b) probably will be satisfied with any…


Holiday Party Strategies

When several people gather to celebrate, such as at year-end holiday parties, the beverages often aren’t particularly upscale, which is perfectly appropriate. In multiparty festivities, people rarely pay attention to the nuances that are in the glass. It doesn’t make sense to serve classics like 1961 Chateau Petrus at large gatherings. Classic wines call for…


‘Champagne’ By Any Other Name

Just because it has bubbles is no reason to call it Champagne. Yet that’s what some writers suggest is the beverage to consider for the upcoming holidays. Indeed, using the term “champagne” with a lower-case c will incur the wrath of some French citizens who consider that the word itself must be capitalized and never used generically….


What Are the Best Hidden – and Affordable – Wine Regions Around Sacramento? See These 6 Spots

By Benjy Egel From The Sacramento Bee Sacramento— California is still America’s wine capital, but day trips to Napa and Sonoma counties aren’t what they once were. Tastings, once free or comped with the purchase of a bottle, have skyrocketed north of $80 at some wineries. Add in the costs and headaches of arranging a…


Alcohol in Wine

I love wine, of course, but my favorite wines have lower alcohol levels than I have usually seen in the last decade or two. The debate about alcohol levels in table wines (which are aimed at going with meals) has raged for roughly the last 30 years. And there are many people, notably in the…


Wine Prices and the Euro

In the last 25 years, imported wine has become fascinating for many American wine lovers. Starting about 2003, we began buying more imported wines than in any prior year, and one reason was that millennial wine lovers, who were just reaching the legal drinking age, fell in love with the diversity we began to see…


Traditional Chinese Medicine | 6 Quick, Easy Ways to Treat Burns and Scalds Without Leaving Scars

In daily life, accidental burns and scalds happen from time to time, so how to treat them in an emergency so as not to cause further infection or leave scars? Wu Kuo-pin, director of Xinyitang Chinese Medical Clinic, said that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has its own set of special clinical experience methods for the…


2022 Grape Harvest

In the last two decades, no one has done more instant adjusting to life’s meteorological vicissitudes than a California winemaker. Erratic weather events, including climate change, have altered normal winemaking strategies and an early harvest this year compressed everything absurdly. The 2022 Northern California wine grape harvest is roughly 80% concluded and September has just…


Free Wine

There are many reasons that the phrase “There’s no free lunch” usually is accurate, but there are ways to save money when it comes to wine — and to say that this column ought to be called “Free Wine” isn’t really a stretch. To make this case meaningful, here are some issues that are at…


Wine: Looking for Values

As popular as wine is today, it’s still seen as fairly pricey by regular consumers, so daily consumers are always seeking strategies to find good values. And now is a perfect time to stock up. Wildfires in California over the last few years have negatively impacted stocks of domestic red wines, which makes them slightly…