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

When I started filling this space with words, the cultural touchstone for wine was a 2004 indie-film-that-blew-up called Sideways . The ev...

Champagne. Sparkling wine. Spumante. Bubbly. It’s that time of year. Dom Perignon, the monk who popularized the concept of carbonat...

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...

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

Editor's Note : It is with a heavy heart that I present the last entry of Jeff's Wine & Dinner of the Month Club. What started a...

[For your Thanksgiving dining pleasure, here’s the latest entry from the Naked Vine’s intrepid contributor Jeff. We here wish you and yours ...

How many times have you heard or read something to this effect in a wine description: “Make sure you open the bottle and let it breathe fo...

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

When you write a column like this one, it's easy to fall into a rut. Therefore, interspersed among my normal columns, I've decided t...

I’m going to relive the Phoenix’s recent wine dinner -- not just so you all get to hear about how perfectly cooked the lamb was, how fresh t...

Spring's my favorite season. Watching the world come back to life after the long, cold winter is a personal favorite pastime. In add...

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

Pinot Noir , the elegant grape. The pleasure of learning about wine expands when you start to explore the differences that exist between...