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

As I mentioned in the recent Chianti column, the naming convention surrounding most European wines revolves around the region, subregion...

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...

The contenders... A couple of our neighbors recently invited The Sweet Partner in Crime and I out on their boat for some fun in the sun...

Would you drink wine from a can? Should you? Wine in a can? Sure. Let's do this! Our neighbor, Christine the Pie Queen, relay...

I get reflective when the calendar flips to this chunk of the annum. I like it – and I think it’s healthy. It makes me appreciate how nothin...

  The sun’s setting on the last day of our Oregon vacation. I’m sitting on the back deck of the home of Bill Hanson with a fat glass of ...

Pumbaa : “Hey, kid, what's eatin' ya?” Timon : “Nothin'. He's on top of the food chain!” -The Lion King Astute obs...

“If God made anything better, He kept it for Himself.” -William S. Burroughs, Junky The Sweet Partner in Crime and I talked fo...

Had the chance to attend the “yes, you really just got tenure” celebration for one Dr. Chris Sullivan not long ago. One of the partygoers...

I love doing flights of almost anything. A “flight” usually refers to a set of small samples of wine, but can be beer, whiskey, cola, ora...

One of the great perks of this gig is receiving samples. Wine at the door always brightens the day. Wine showing up unexpectedly  really bri...

I did a little background piece back in the Wine School days on the difference between syrah and shiraz. Which is to say, there isn't o...

"Why are you biased against chardonnay?" Huh? I got this question in an email from a reader not too long ago. I won't lie...it...