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

Home renovation shows are the Sweet Partner in Crime’s guilty pleasure. Especially the one where an inordinately attractive person finds ...

Here’s another pair of California summer whites, this time from Geyser Peak. The winery dates back to some of the original Sonoma growers...

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

I was invited to attend the recent grand opening of a Cooper’s Hawk Restaurant, an “upscale-casual” restaurant boasting a tasting room at ...

Fresh off our trip to Thailand in February, I was having a hankering for meat on a stick, so some skewered chicken and some kind of stir fry...

I'll admit, I can be influenced by wine marketing. Larry Lockshin, an Australian researcher on wine consumerism, determined that the ave...

The Sweet Partner in Crime and I finally got to the end of our school year. We decided, in conjunction with the SPinC's birthday, to unp...

I really like writing the Vine most of the time. I enjoy cooking and discovering new pairings. I get truly excited when a new magazine wants...

Every once in a blue moon, I get a request to sample wines that are just making their way to the market -- like last year when I sampled the...

"OK, smart guy," the email began, "Nice suggestions for wines to bring to someone's house -- but what would you suggest f...

Sometimes, a column unexpectedly falls into your lap. On a day that found me wracked with a horrid case of writer’s block, a ray of sunshine...

Hard to believe it's been a year since the last time I looked at wines for the Most Gluttonous Time Of The Year. Lots of calories unde...

The Sweet Partner in Crime and I needed some rest. Without going into too much detail, I'll simply say that this was the least relaxi...

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

So reads the liner note stipulation on Lou Reed’s…ahem…"experimental" 1975 Metal Machine Music . On this, Sweet Jane's father ...