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

Lining 'em up in Vancouver... The jumping off point for my summer vacation with the Sweet Partner in Crime was Vancouver. Neither of...

Since joining our CSA , the Sweet Partner in Crime and I have challenged ourselves to power our way through every last vegetable in that wo...

The last jaunt the Sweet Partner in Crime and I made to California, we spent most of our time in the Sonoma Coast AVA. That close to the Pa...

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...

After our recent spin through some of their new organic Chilean wines, I had the chance to try a few bottles from Emiliana Winery’s “Novas...

A few weeks ago, I received an invitation for a wonderful sounding wine-tasting luncheon at a restaurant called Faith and Flower featuring w...

I really enjoy Fair Ridge Farms , our outlet for Community Supported Agriculture. If you’re not familiar with a CSA, it’s usually a farmer ...

Terroir comes up quite a bit around here, obviously. To refresh your memory, terroir is the combination of soil geology and composition, ...

Chilean wines benefit from the country’s unique geography. The Andes border the various winegrowing regions on the east and the Pacific O...

Celebrations abound at Vine HQ! Your intrepid reviewer just had a bit of a milestone birthday, coupled with graduating with his doctorate f...

Most everyone’s got a “house wine.” In Vine Land, when there are new bottles showing up on a fairly regular basis, it’s comforting to...

Following the slate of Italian rosés came another non-traditional entry into the pink wine market – the Rainbow Nation of South Africa.  ...

Many countries’ lesser-known indigenous red grapes produce highly tannic wines that are sometimes a little difficult to approach. Faced...