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Longtime Vineheads know I've long been a champion of rosé. For over a decade, I've been chanting my "pink is not a flavor...

When the Sweet Partner in Crime and I made our last jaunt to Sonoma, we made our home base Bodega Bay, right on the Pacific. From Bodega, ...

I sometimes wonder which fictional character had more of an effect on the world of wine – Miles’s rant about the inadequacies of Merlot in ...

Montepulciano, one of my favorite wine double-entendres. “Montepulciano” is a wine term that gets tied up in Italian wine naming conventio...

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

The last jaunt the Sweet Partner in Crime and I made to California, we spent most of our time in the Sonoma Coast AVA. That close to the Pa...

Fall! Air cooling a bit, leaves turning, and the menus around Vine HQ shifting from the scrumptious salads, soups, and lighter fare which t...

A chance to explore the “other half” of my favorite wine double-entendre? Sign me up! What the heck am I talking about? I’m just talkin’...

How does a wine so flexible get overlooked so often? I ask the question for myself as much as anything. Chianti, the most well-known Itali...

Wine grapes can be like sandwiches. A sandwich, by any other name, is a sub…or a hoagie…or a grinder…or a torpedo…depending on where you’r...

Say it with me. "Po-MEE-no." Doesn't that sound fun? What's Pomino? It's a small wine region tucked away in the nort...

Ah, Italian wine. Love it. Love it. Love it. As the foodie that I am, I’m hard pressed to come up with wine that goes better with a meal tha...

Naked Vine Note : The Naked Vine's international correspondent has decided to continue his foray into the intrepid world of wine bloggi...

"Wile E. Coyote, super genius! I like the way that rolls out...'Wile E. Coyote...soooper geeenyus'!" I've never bee...