Note: I’m listing these in sequence from dry to sweet, but I actually tasted them in three flights, one per day, with each flight...

A double-header here, partly because I’m getting backed up on tasting reports, and partly because I like the implied contrast between a...

Sheesh! Did you know there are now 480 RM Champagne growers exporting to the Unites States? That’s a gain of 69 in just the last year....

Before reading my thoughts on Gobelsburg's wines, a brief reminder how I deploy my “plusses.” Because they can be misconstrued if you...

ANOTHER SHOE DROPS, ANOTHER HERO FALLS R.I.P Alfred Merkelbach Alfred died the morning of the 14th, in a hospital in Bernkastel. He’d...

I sometimes wonder whether the accumulation of aesthetic memory turns eventually into a felt sense. I don’t know, but if it does it makes...

LANGUAGE POLICE AT IT AGAIN Political gadfly James Carville teaches at LSU, and on one celebratory occasion he decided to demonstrate for...

It’s hardly a surprise that I love these wines both subjectively and for very good reason. I like red wines that lead with fruit. They...

The Germans have a word – sympathisch – which doesn’t mean “sympathetic” but is one of those words that resists direct translation....

Katie was a wine pal of mine whom I kept in loose touch with. As it happens, wine is the thing she writes most soberly about. You’ll see...