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

Lining 'em up in Vancouver... The jumping off point for my summer vacation with the Sweet Partner in Crime was Vancouver. Neither of...

Pinot grigio usually isn’t my speed. While I’ve come to enjoy Italian whites more and more (I feel pretty safe with almost any varietal...

The Sweet Partner in Crime and I made our first trip to Sonoma County in 2005. Our first stop upon entering the county, before even check...

In my review of  Franciscan Estates' Equilibrium , I referenced an old fave of mine called Conundrum  -- one of my first gold standards ...

As more wineries pop up around here, I’m increasingly asked, “What are your favorite local places?” I have to take an invariable deep breat...

Not long ago, my father-in-law sent me a voucher for “$100 off a case from Naked Wines” that he’d received in one publication or oth...

An apt description. Another round of thanks to Stacey at Balzac for sending along a set of samples from Pepi Winery, one of the sub-l...

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

If  you're casting about for things to check out over the upcoming long weekend, a couple of the local wineries we've featured here ...

I had a couple of requests after the last column (“ A Chill in the Air, some Reds for your Glass ") for a companion piece on cool-wea...

First off, Happy Birthday to my sister Annie... A few months ago, I took a look at Viognier, which I find to be one of the more interesti...

When I attended the Cincinnati International Wine Festival , I noted that Maryhill Wineries in Goldendale, Washington, was one of the label...