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

I guess I wasn't completely accurate -- there is one more Naked Vine left in me for 2019. The Sweet Partner in Crime and I recently re...

Fall, finally! Cooler nights, bigger foods, darker drinks. Once the weather starts to turn away from heat, I tend to turn my sights ba...

Touko Laaksonen was born in 1920. He studied advertising, served in the Finnish army during WWII, and began drawing strongly masculine f...

Ashley is unhappy today. With Kentucky bounced unceremoniously by Kansas State from the NCAA Tournament last night, many UK fans are l...

Sam "Big Smooth" Perkins -- who has nothing to do with this wine. Over the last year or so, I’ve been noticing more and more...

Congratulations, you social animal, you! You scored an invite to a holiday party. People like you…they really like you! I mean, that is, ...

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...

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...

(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...

"You know it's serious medicine if it's got an X or a Z in the name."  -- Bill Maher The downhill run to Thanksgiving me...

Almost exactly a year ago, I received a couple of Zinfandels -- framed by some reminiscences of the  trip to Sonoma County  which led the Sw...

Thanks to Tiffany and the good folks at Balzac, I had the chance to do a rundown of the Tin Roof Cellars portfolio. Tin Roof, a wid...