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Back in 1970 I used to crank up my stereo and listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival sing Stuck in Lodi Again. What a great song, but I did not have the faintest idea what or where Lodi was and certainly had no knowledge of a vine called zinfandel, o...

May 4 was International Sauvignon Blanc Day. It was appropriate then, that on the following day, more than 50 producers of this wine from California, France and New Zealand gathered in the town of Kelseyville for a grand tasting. This community of ...

Winemakers are faced with an ancient and genetically unstable grape that offers them over 1,000 clones to choose from. It would be fair to say, however, that the majority are not suitable for making good wine. The vine prefers a cool climate and, w...

Recently we have unloaded quite a few new wines and to say that they represent a broad range of tastes is putting it mildly. Let me give you a few examples. We have stocked two lovely rosé wines from Mirabeau in Provence and now we have just added th...

The Languedoc-Roussillon vineyards in Southern France claim to have more grape varieties planted in them than anywhere else in the world. Last year, overall, French wine exports to the United States grew by 14 per cent, but from this area the growt...

During a meeting with wine producers at the New York Wine Experience last October, I was told of a brand-new creation that they intended to release in January of this year. The name and concept appealed to me and I assured them that we would introd...

The last time that we saw Maja and Roberto Guldener was close to 20 years ago, but we remembered how much they loved our island. Last Thursday, I picked them up at the airport and bought them to our home where they were to spend a few days. On Frid...

I recently opened a book from my collection in the office and noted that it was published in the very year that I joined the wine trade. I had just quit a promising career with IBM and felt that the 6,000-year-old wine business might offer less of ...

Malbec grapes have been grown in the area known as Cahors in France for many centuries and we carry five from the best-known producer. This, however, will not be about those wines as World Malbec Day, celebrated April 17, really belongs to Argentin...

I’m not sure how many fishcakes it takes to get one kite in the air, but I am thinking of next Friday and the baked ham on Easter Sunday; let me suggest a few wines. The Bastianich family has been one of the greatest supporters of Friulian wines in t...