Who Doesn’t Love a Good Value? Saumur in the Loire Valley, France’s most diverse wine region, is famed for…
More Exciting Than a Houseplant When it comes to winegrowing, vines are not houseplants: i.e., lusher is not better.…
One Grape To Rule Them All Roughly half of all the vineyards in Piedmont, Italy are Barbera, a vast…
When Strict is a Good Thing Oregon has the strictest wine labeling laws of any U.S. state. A labeled…
Heat Exhaustion Do you detect a cooked or stewed fruit smell? That’s from overheating, and is a fault that…
A Wine’s First Day of School A wine can have primary, secondary, and tertiary flavors. Primary flavors come from…
