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

Before the Naked Vine was but a twinkle in my virtual eye, I was a fairly prodigious homebrewer. This was before the early-aught’s explosion...

Ah, Tuscany -- how we love you. Home of all those wonderful Sangiovese grapes which get turned into Chianti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano...

Opus One. Heard of it? Maybe you only know it as a Jay-Z lyric , but Opus One helped put Napa Valley’s Cabernet Sauvignon on the world ...

It’s cold and dreary. The sun barely peeks out – and when it does, it’s not much of a help warming things up. These are richer food days, m...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of Seasons 52, one of Cincinnati’s newest restaurants. I had the good fortune that evening to be sitting...

I had the good fortune of leading another wine tasting last week focusing on French reds. While it’s pretty impractical (and nearly imposs...

As we prepare to bid adieu to 2011, we find ourselves in the last throes of the holiday season. The last two weeks of the year become a mu...

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...

Hand it to the folks at Planet Bordeaux. They’re a creative bunch. As I’ve mentioned before, Planet Bordeaux is the marketing arm of th...

As a teenager, I was the Space-Age Whiz Kid. No video game could stand in my way. Me against the machine. Sparks flew from my fingers. Alway...

Close your eyes. Picture standing in the middle of a field of honeysuckle. Breathe in that scent. Now, imagine someone’s picked all of the f...

Mike Wangbickler of Balzac Communications recently gave me the opportunity to get a first look at “Planet Bordeaux” – the new marketing proj...

Mike Wangbickler of Balzac Communications recently gave me the opportunity to get a first look at “Planet Bordeaux” – the new marketing proj...

[Rough translation: The slothful French evening] Like just about every other foodie we know, the Sweet Partner in Crime and I went to see ...