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

One of my favorite times of the year at Liquor Direct . The wine staff has a little competition. They look for a wine that's under $50 (...

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...

I didn’t want to leave you hanging all thirsty for some new bottles to try. As you can see from the site index , a fair amount of wine gets ...

Now that I've had a couple of days to rehydrate so that my brain feels less like it's been slow-cooked in bacon grease, I can start ...

Speaking of wine and law, I saw this article in the Enquirer today. Some grocery stores in Kentucky are starting a petition drive to allow ...

...from the Federal Appeals Court in Cincinnati. They ruled yesterday that the state of Kentucky must allow wine shipments into the state i...

Breakfast is "the most important meal of the day." Lunch is all too often fast food or something you scarf while you're plowin...

No, no -- not another verse-filled vinho verde column...it's the environment, silly! I enjoy being greener. Call it "Gore's ex...

Via vine reader John C. -- today's Urban Dictionary word of the day: econnoisseur One who insists on the highest quality at the lowest...

Welcome to the most exhausting time of the year. Thanksgiving travel gives way to familial dinner table stress. Black Friday comes, with its...

Since I've given you the wines that the SPinC and I are planning to serve with Thanksgiving dinner, here's the rest of the menu: Fi...

The Naked Vine now has a sprout some distance north. The good folks at Express Milwaukee -- the online home of Shepherd Express, Milwaukee...

More cheap wine ! (h/t: James .) Stumble It!

"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...