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

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...

  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 ...

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

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...

The Naked Vine’s social calendar has been loaded the last couple of weekends. As I posted before, I had the opportunity to lead one tasting ...

I was talking to the Sweet Partner in Crime over dinner this evening (bulgogi-style chicken, fish sauce-soaked cucumbers, kimchi, and a tast...

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...

Some of you who read my less-than-enthusiastic writeup of the last Cincinnati Wine Festival may remember that I still managed to run across...

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

For part I of the trip, click here . For pictures, watch below and click for closeups... As you drive around Seneca, there's a bend in t...