When a wine is great, it can slip through your fingers, making description a real struggle. On back-to-back weekends, I...
When I started Opening a Bottle last year, I didn’t realize that I would get the chance to meet so many...
Featuring A Super Super Tuscan: Aia Vecchia's Sor Ugo
The best wine of 2015 ... bar none.
At certain times, I come across too many good wines at once, and my writing can’t keep up. So before...
I’m at a point in my Nebbiolo-drinking career where I honestly can’t say whether I prefer Barbaresco and Barolo more than the...
We sat down in the backyard around an unlit fireplace with a faint whisper of an autumn wind in the air....
Over the weekend, we invited a group of friends to our home to partake in a Spanish wine tasting. It was...
Can an affordable wine be a “fine wine?” The answer is “of course, silly head.” But us wine geeks often fail to...
For a moment, think of the wine inside a bottle as a story. As you drink it, it has a progression:...
Autumn is probably my favorite time of year to uncork wine. The heat of summer slowly begins to dissipate, creating opportunities...
Buying solely on curiosity, I picked up a bottle of Rojac Istra Refošk at the Wine Cellars of Stapleton a few weeks...