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

Not long ago, I was asked to lead a wine-tasting fundraiser for the Madisonville Education and Assistance Center (MEAC). The event, a blind ...

No, I'm not branching the Vine off into movie reviews -- although anyone that knows me or has followed the site knows that I'm a mov...

One of the dangers in writing a wine column is that certain wines can get buried -- wines that I really like, but for whatever reason -- jus...

Monica from Balzac, who previously let me try samples of both Espiritu de Chile and Golden Kaan wines, sent me something a little differen...

Oh, fer gossake. You can't make this up. Thanks to Vine Reader Bev E. for cluing me in to this little gem. I did a review a while ago of...

It's natural, I guess, for a fledgling wine reviewer like myself to fall into the game of adjectives that is the wine reviewing world. I...

You may have noticed that the Sweet Partner in Crime and I do a lot of cooking. Comes with the territory with the wine stuff. Friday, though...

“Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in Arizona Bay…” – Tool, “Aenema” "Wine, song, food, and fire/Clothes, shelter, and seed. ...

Vine reader and ol' drinkin' buddy Nate L. passed along this little gem of an article from The Daily Beast: The Great Cabernet Ripof...

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...

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...

As a child of the 70's, I can't read "Barbera" without tagging "Hannah" in front of it. Anyone my age who doesn...

Monica from Balzac, who was goodly enough to let me try the Espiritu de Chile selections back in January, asked me to give my impressions o...

Your intrepid wine blogger has thrown his name in the hat for Murphy-Goode winery's "A Really Goode Job" promotion. One lucky ...

After our 100th review, I figure this is a good a time to make a slight change around here. Now don't go worrying, I'm still keeping...