Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it has also made for some pretty good wine. Beginning in the 1980s,…
The Central Loire Valley appellation of Vouvray produces the world’s most distinctive, rich Chenin Blanc wines. These are floral, fruity…
No, this isn’t about a cigarette-smoking cowboy on a horse – it’s about New Zealand’s Marlborough region and its signature…
In the late 60s and early 70s, some Californians looked north and decided that Oregon’s Willamette Valley would be…
Sometimes it pays to challenge the rules. Mario Incisa Della Rochetta had his own ideas about how to make a…
Bordeaux is France’s largest wine region — it has about 300,000 acres of vines (by comparison, Napa Valley has about…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made…
Things aren’t always as they seem. Take a simple bottle of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. You might think it’s…
Often, wine and history are intertwined. Take Châteauneuf-du-Pape, in France’s Rhône Valley. Literally, the name translates as “new castle of…
The 2004 movie Sideways was set in Santa Barbara, California. It may be the only movie to torpedo a specific…