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

As I mentioned in the recent Chianti column, the naming convention surrounding most European wines revolves around the region, subregion...

As I've gotten older and more full of years, my palate's changed a bit. Lighter-styled wines have been finding their way to our ta...

Longtime Vineheads know I've long been a champion of rosé. For over a decade, I've been chanting my "pink is not a flavor...

Ladies and gentlemen, pardon the long winter hibernation. There’s a lot happening on the home front here at Vine HQ, which I’ll catch all ...

Since it's the middle of winter (although it hardly feels like it these days), this is the natural season to consume a glass of that ...

We've been on a bit of a barrelling kick here in Vineland. We've done a couple of stories on bourbon-barrel aged wine -- and I'v...

Organic wine is nothing new. I first wrote about organic wine more than a decade ago – but over the last couple of years, it feels like th...

Fall, finally! Cooler nights, bigger foods, darker drinks. Once the weather starts to turn away from heat, I tend to turn my sights ba...

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....