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

As many of you know, I have a real passion for autochthonal wines. (“ Psst…Mike…what the hell’s an autochthonal wine? ”) OK, fine....

Ashley is unhappy today. With Kentucky bounced unceremoniously by Kansas State from the NCAA Tournament last night, many UK fans are l...

Sam "Big Smooth" Perkins -- who has nothing to do with this wine. Over the last year or so, I’ve been noticing more and more...

Ah, Chianti. Lovely Sangiovese-based blend from Tuscany, how do I love thee? As you all know, here around Vine HQ, we love our food,...

No one can work with wine without tipping back too much from time to time. The morning after. The headache, the nausea, and the sun, as N...

Pictured: Us. A couple of nights ago, the Sweet Partner in Crime and I hosted a lovely little shindig for a reunion of the Tennessee Al...

When the Sweet Partner in Crime and I made our last jaunt to Sonoma, we made our home base Bodega Bay, right on the Pacific. From Bodega, ...

Australian wine played a major role in the early days of my wine education. I was in graduate school, invited to one of my first “grownup...

Congratulations, you social animal, you! You scored an invite to a holiday party. People like you…they really like you! I mean, that is, ...

Let’s talk for a second about climate change. The planet is warming. One immediate impact is going to be on terroir.  Tour any winemaki...

While we’re in Bubbles Mode, let’s look at Spain’s answer to inexpensive sparkling wine – and a longtime go-to staple around these parts…Ca...

Prosecco is enjoying some unprecedented boom times at the moment. In 2016, for the first time in history, the sparkling Italian wine surp...

The contenders... A couple of our neighbors recently invited The Sweet Partner in Crime and I out on their boat for some fun in the sun...

On the heels of my little adventure across the hills and beaches of Italy comes another set of Italian samples for your consideration as ...

Breezes off the Mediterranean lightly caress your skin. You lean back, sated under a cerulean sky. Italian summer sun warms you as you fe...