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

As the heat of summer continues to build, more and more of you are reaching for tasty bottles of cold rosé. Lots more of you, in fact. Whe...

What’s your typical level of clumsy?  If you have ballerina-level grace or Messi-quality balance, this product likely isn’t your ba...

Over the Vine’s period of years, I’ve seen wine trends come and go. Wineries merge, brands change, labels change. Early on in my tasting ti...

What’s in a name? When it comes to wine, nomenclature can mean a great deal – depending on which country’s soil you’re standing upon…...

The time’s come again, folks – Mother’s Day. The day to thank Mom for changing our diapers, wiping our tears, and laying the foundatio...

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...