Category: France
Red Wines from Four Continents for Summer Sipping, $10 to $20
The following wines were selected from among several hundred tasted in recent months and scored...
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Cork Dork: Insights into the Quest for Sommelier Status
For highly entertaining insights into the world of wine, restaurants, the route to becoming a...
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Summer Close Out on Red, White and Bubbly Wine Values
If you are looking for tasting adventures with unfamiliar grapes, Spain continues to provide some...
Read MoreTwenty Quality White Wines Under $15, Plus a Few Higher-Priced Finds
As wines from the most recent harvests advance toward the distribution channels, spring white sales are in full swing to open future shelf space at your friendly wine merchant and big box store. The following are the best values...
Read MoreSparklers from Champagne, Cremant and California
In tasting a wide range of sparkling wines over the past few months, with prices ranging from $15 to more than $200 and up to 11 years old, we found several that stood out. The older Champagnes are worth seeking out for special...
Read MoreThe Winofiles — a Few Favorite Books for the Wine Lovers on Your Gift List
If any of your wine drinking friends or relatives have expressed an interest in learning more about the noble grape and how it goes from a vineyard anywhere in the world, to bottle, to your local merchant, what to look for and...
Read MoreFinding Your Benchmark Wines, Calibrating Your Palate
During the early days of running the San Diego Chapter of WINO (Wine Investigation for Novices and Oenophiles) in the 1970s, my mission was to encourage people to try different wines with food and be comfortable with what they...
Read MoreWhites for Toasting the Red, White and Blue
Heading into the July 4 weekend, we reviewed recent notes on wines suitable for a little summer sipping and toasting our Declaration of Independence before hitting the reds to match the best from the grill. The following were...
Read MoreBig wine country: 13 reds to match with BBQ, pasta, pizza
With the grilling season officially launched this past Memorial Day weekend on barbecues all over the U.S., it’s time to venture into big wine country. It’s a diverse one, too. In tasting some 50 candidates over the past few...
Read MoreBubbly Blind Tasting: Fun with Older Champagne, NV California Sparklers
Jerry Feitelson, Ph.D. in genetics, founded the Carmel Valley Wine Club in San Diego in 1990 to create a forum for tasting wines from different parts of the world, sharing the costs, scoring the wines according to the U.C. Davis...
Read MoreBBQ fun: Cabernet, Merlot, Malbec and blends from $10 to $19
Retailers, merchants, supermarkets in some states and big box stores can be good browsing territories when looking for good values for summer barbecue fun. You can find cheaper wines, of course, but you can’t always distinguish...
Read MoreAging Better Wines in Screw Top Closures — Research Continues
In reviewing current literature for an update on changing trends in the use of different wine closures, a calendar reminder popped up from January 2010, to retrieve a small cardboard box from the cellar containing 100-milliliter...
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