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

We’re three weeks away from The Big Feed and you need to start thinking about buying wine. Since you’re the classy, thoughtful individual t...

(Reposting, since I've had a few requests for this...) The stretch from Hallow’een to New Year’s is often the most heavily-packed time...

Keeping with our theme this week of wine for fun social events, here are a couple of additional bottles for consideration as party season g...

Few things bellow “Summertime!” more than my favorite warm weather drink, dry rosé . Settle in for a spell, then proudly order something...

I’ve neglected German Riesling for a bit around these parts. Not long after I started the Vine, I got asked in an interview what my favori...

When I do wine tastings, a lot of people say, “I don’t like dry wines – I only like sweet wines.” There’s nothing inherently wrong with liki...

One of the dangers in writing a wine column is that certain wines can get buried -- wines that I really like, but for whatever reason -- jus...

Welcome to the most exhausting time of the year. Thanksgiving travel gives way to familial dinner table stress. Black Friday comes, with its...

Sweet wine, hay making, sunshine day breaking. We can wait till tomorrow. Car speed, road calling, bird freed, leaf falling. We can bide tim...

Riesling -- the crowd pleaser. In my CinWeekly interview, I mentioned Riesling as my favorite wine of the moment. I mentioned it's...

Moving to the other side of the wine aisle… When I started drinking wine, I thought (as many do) that red wine came from red grapes and ...

I promise…no more talk of mullets. However, Gewürztraminer inspired me to explore a grape from that region I hadn't experienced: Grün...

Tried and true recipe for 80's metal band success: Aqua Net? Check. Leather pants? Check. At least one power ballad? Check. An...

I never imagined this would be a difficult entry. A Hallow'een-themed wine column...easy, right? I figured there would be any number of ...