Have you ever wondered how people come up with tasting notes on the back of a wine bottle? The ones that read something like, “Full-bodied with aromas of green peppercorn, graphite, dark chocolate and ...

You know what’s overwhelming? Shopping for wine. Any given wine store could carry hundreds of bottles, so how are you supposed to choose? (Hint: It has nothing to do with how pretty the label looks, ...

For thousands of years, people have been making great wine in Tuscany. Known in Italian as “Toscana,” some of these wines remain some of the most revered — and most expensive — wines in the world. But ...

A woman of mystery is determined to demystify the world of wine. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, who in her day (actually, mostly night) job has to don a disguise to review restaurants, just released Drink ...

It occurred to me recently that while Reverse Wine Snob is meant to be friendly enough that someone who knows nothing about ...

Canned wines, though different from boxed wines, also tend to share some negative press among the public, often regarded as cheap and inferior in quality. On occasion, that might be the case, with ...

Wine snobs often use odd terms to describe wines. We’ve all see a parody of the wine snob: an erudite personage, probably fancily dressed, holding the stemware just so and making declarations of ...