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

Carmenere, a red Chilean grape beginning to pop up on more and more good wine lists, has had a long road to broad public knowledge – and a...

We find ourselves at the end of another summer, marked by Labor Day – declared a national holiday in 1894, and declared by the retail in...

Touko Laaksonen was born in 1920. He studied advertising, served in the Finnish army during WWII, and began drawing strongly masculine f...

I casually peruse food articles, as you might guess. One emerging set of hot takes seems to revolve around brunch. Specifically, that brun...

Ah, Venice. Starting spot for the first European trip the Sweet Partner in Crime and I took together a decade ago. We have many lovely m...

When I started filling this space with words, the cultural touchstone for wine was a 2004 indie-film-that-blew-up called Sideways . The ev...

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, ...