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

Howdy! Hello to all my new friends from Cincinnati.Com ! I'm Mike Rosenberg, Sommelier for the Common Man, and I'll be your host...

Deep in the throes of the ongoing kitchen remodel, I didn’t expect to find myself tucking away deliciously seasoned strip steak and quail,...

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 ...

Let’s go drive ‘til the morning comes, Watch the sunrise to fill our souls up. Drink some wine ‘til we get drunk…             -Dave ...

I could devote many column inches on the enormous impact my father has had on the fabric of so many people’s lives over the years (Google “J...

After our forays into hard and soft cheeses, the time has arrived to have a peek of the most polarizing province of the cheese kingdom, stin...

I've had a couple of people ask about the birthday dinner that the Sweet Partner in Crime and I had to celebrate my official passage int...

Hello, everyone... In the interest of keeping the vine growing, I thought I'd post and answer some of the reader questions that I get ...

Hungry, thirsty area foodies looking for something tasty to do this week should take note. The Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati will be host...

One of the first wines I wrote about on The Naked Vine was Malbec , not long after having discovered it initially. Since then, I haven...

One of the founding missions of the Vine was to alleviate "wine anxiety" -- the sinking feeling that comes when presented with eit...

I've mentioned on more than one occasion what a fan I am of Beaujolais . Beaujolais is the red of summertime. It's best served slig...

Summertime. Fresh vegetables and herbs. All the natural yumminess you’d ever want, there for the taking at your local farmer’s market or i...

Hang out with corkheads long enough, and someone will eventually start talking about terroir. Wine's typically not something to be sca...

Let's face facts. Lots of wine drinking has nothing to do with "wine tasting," especially in summertime. Sure, there are...