Dan Berger

The best wines are in extremely short supply.

Not only are bankruptcies and winery closures becoming commonplace, but very slow wine sales are also changing the face of domestic production.

The least patrons can do is to validate that the wine they ordered is what they wanted.

Most of today’s domestic wines don’t have the staying power to improve.

Wine today, whether it’s from the United States or a place you have never heard of, is better than it has ever been.

Where the grapes grew usually contributed something more interesting to a wine than just what the grape variety was.

A “shelf talker” is a slip of paper or a card with a few words that describe the wine sitting on the shelf that retailers hope will entice people to buy it.

Good wine is getting better. And this has nothing to do with improving the grapes or the techniques that wineries use.

Wine is a complex discipline that entails farming (botany and plant physiology) and fermentation science (chemistry and microbiology).

Cabernet franc is quite similar to cabernet sauvignon with several additional traits that make it much more approachable.