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

Hey, everyone! I’ve got something for your upcoming social calendars! I’m going to be co-leading a wine tasting with my fellow wine-loving...

Aperitif --a common word in wine descriptions. I’m 100% guilty of throwing it out there myself, usually when I’m describing light, dry whit...

As I get started here, let me once again thank Jeff, the Naked Vine’s foreign correspondent, for his great work with his monthly dinner club...

So here we are with the last of the Wine/Dinner of the Month Club entries (that is, unless Mike gives me a bump up in my royalties). This mo...

Portuguese Wine. I’ll be honest, I’d never given it a second thought. I knew that Port originally came from northern Portugal, and I’ve ha...

[Some of you had been asking about Jeff’s last entry. Sorry to keep you waiting. Computer issues in the Plepysbury household put a momentary...

Happy New Year, everyone! I’ve neglected the Alphabet Soup Project for far too long. Thought I’d start the new year off right… At your nex...

Hello everyone. The Sweet Partner in Crime and I are back from our little sojourn in the Caribbean on the Celebrity Millennium. Yes, I know ...

The Sweet Partner in Crime’s well-timed conference in San Francisco gave me the perfect opportunity to take a couple of days off, zoom we...

( Click here for Part 1.) On the second day of our little jaunt through Mendocino County wine country, we were accompanied by Sid, a frien...

Sparkling wine is like any other vino in terms of quality. There are super-cheap headache producers, everyday bottles, and loveliness to pul...

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...

(Originally published in the Dayton City Paper , December 1, 2010) Robert Parker, for those of you unfamiliar, is the single most pol...

A little self-congratulatatory post here. An article I wrote about the environment and perception on the tasting of wine made the front page...

I’m never one to look a gift wine in the mouth. One of my compatriots, the California Condor, was trying to scare up some cash for his emplo...