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

I make no bones about my love of Pinot Noir. I do find, though, that I end up regularly purchasing a bottle less often than I probably shou...

A couple of years ago, I was asked to review a set of Chilean wines called Natura from Emiliana Vineyards. The wine fairy brought a few ...

I sometimes wonder which fictional character had more of an effect on the world of wine – Miles’s rant about the inadequacies of Merlot in ...

Oh, Spanish reds, how do I love thee? The Naked Vine Rule #1 of Food Pairings is “People make wine to go with the foods they love to e...

I love doing side-by-sides with similar wines. In this case, I had the chance to give the once-over to a pair of Côtes du Rhône from slightl...

Let’s pop back over to Spain for a moment, Rioja is not the only game in town when it comes to the fruitful production of grapey goodness....

Yeah, I’m going to relish this one a little. One of the developments I’ve seen in the US wine market has been the greater demand for ro...

The long nightmare that was 2016 is drawing to a close. As we sit here on the edge of ’17, waiting to see what America’s Orange Era has in ...

In my “Ten Years” retrospective, I copped to making a number of factual goofs when I was getting this good ol’ column off the ground. I...

Psst…stick with me and I’ll tell you a big wine secret. But before I do, I’m going to take a little me-time. The Sweet Partner in Crime...

“You know that in the back of every sushi restaurant there’s a guy going, ‘Hey, look! They ate it! You want some hot wine to go with that, ...

To accompany the Guide to Thanksgiving Wine Buying I put together for your reading pleasure, I recently got a few bottles from the Wine F...

We’re three weeks away from The Big Feed and you need to start thinking about buying wine. Since you’re the classy, thoughtful individual t...

Years ago, back in my single days, I remember hanging out with some of my besties at my bachelor pad, quaffing some of my homebrews and ...

When I went to the Sweet Partner in Crime's house for the first time, she offered me a glass from a big ol' bottle of Meridian cha...