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There are a lot of sayings about wine that simply aren't true. However, a few are true, even ...

On the old Jack Benny radio show in the 1940s, a continuing character played by the actor Sheldon ...

Shortly after I began writing a wine column in 1976, a friend teased me about my avocation. We ...

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Decades ago, visiting wine country was limited to the few areas of the country with wineries. Outside California, ...

What do you do when you buy a bottle of wine that, for one reason or another, is ...

Recently, the world lost two of the most important figures in California's wine history when Jim Clendenen and ...

My friend operated a retail wine shop. And he was incredulous. It was 1983, and I had just ...

Writing about wine is an art form that's almost as interesting as making it—and it's a lot less ...

Wine geeks use the French term "terroir," a hard-to-translate term that relates to how grape varieties are impacted ...

Younger people (under age 45?) say zinfandel is a dark red wine that's bold, brash, thickly rich, soft, ...

Wine purists will tell you that the wine you choose for a dinner should match the food that's ...

Most people assume that all expensive wines are very good and that the more expensive a wine is, ...

Dear Dan: A good friend hosted me for a birthday dinner, and the elegant table was set with ...

There are lots of myths within the wine business that keep being repeated, and one of the most ...

When a recipe calls for a cup of white wine, the cook who wrote that suggestion likely wasn't ...

One of France's finest wine-growing regions, and one of its least understood, is the northern district of Alsace, ...

The late wine author Leon Adams once said that in a best-of-all-worlds situation, dry wine should be as ...

One of the most enduring myths of red wine is that the older it gets, the better it ...