The Naked Vine: Wine Advice for the Rest of Us.™

Organic wine is nothing new. I first wrote about organic wine more than a decade ago – but over the last couple of years, it feels like th...

Let’s talk for a second about climate change. The planet is warming. One immediate impact is going to be on terroir.  Tour any winemaki...

This space has a long history with Malbec, the varietal that has become the national wine and biggest export from Argentina. Malbec was one...

When I started The Naked Vine lo those many years ago, one of the wines I reviewed in my very first column was a varietal that I’d only re...

Neighbor Jeff and I make an annual trip to our local Big Wine Store to stock him up for his annual project. You may remember the adventures...

If you want to peek all the way back to the Naked Vine’s germination , you’ll find a Malbec among the first set of wines I ever wrote about...

Let’s nip back down to South America for a quick sampling of a few tasty Chilean delights. I haven’t written about Chilean wines in awhile,...

Can you feel the cool on the underside of the breeze? It’s a’comin, folks. Real fall weather. Red wine season. I personally go through a lot...

Hope folks didn’t mind bit of a pause while the Sweet Partner in Crime and I were vacationing (well, I was – she had to work for a few days....

You may have seen “repurposing” cropping up from time to time in various contexts. First time I saw it, I thought it was first simply a syno...

Viognier. It just sounds cool. Of course, you need to know how to say it first. I know I went an embarrassingly long time calling it somethi...

One of the first wines I wrote about on The Naked Vine was Malbec , not long after having discovered it initially. Since then, I haven...

Over the next year, I'd like to look at some slightly less-known varietals that are becoming more widely available. I'm also going...

Chardonnay, the ubiquitous white. Chardonnay is the United States ' most popular wine -- and perhaps the most popular in the world...

Another journey south of the Equator, readers. This time, the other side of the Andes is our destination -- the world's fifth largest wi...