This article appearded in the February/March 2007 edition of Connections Magazine (Ireland) There can't be a more misunderstood type of wine than Sherry. People tend...

If a wine shouts in the forest does anyone hear it? In the din of the global wine glut only the loudest, boldest, most shameless...

This article appeared in the December 2006 edition of Connections Magazine (Ireland) Pernod Ricard recently announced the creation of the world's most expensive champagne. At...

In this article we grapple with two eternal dilemmas: what holiday gift to get people who really like wine and what to call people who...

This is the time of the year when everyone asks the eternal holiday question: what wine goes with turkey? Since this subject has already been...

If you don't watch a lot of TV you may have never heard of the MTV show Pimp My Ride, where old jalopies are transformed...

Here we track down and taste a 1953 Leoville Barton St. Julien, a 1959 Huet Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec Vouvray and a 1971 Schloss Reinhartshausen Hattenheimer...

Warning: Irony alert! Items in red italics are used ironically. Please don't send any more hate mail. I love the French, French wine and French...

Now that there are more fat than starving people in the world, there must be a lot more foodies as well. But what's a foodie?...