Observe the care with which the American backyard grill jockey shifts and turns that New York strip over that 2,000-degree gas flame to give it the perfect crosshatch of grill marks, and you'll sense there's something primal going on.
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Years ago a California winemaker came to Miami touting his latest creation -- a single, complex, expensive wine made by blending four or five well-known individual red grapes.
For fun, he set up a tasting in a restaurant and invited local wine ...
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
English poet John Yeats was musing on romantic love, but, in my mind, it could have been an ode to the red grape and wine called pinot noir.
Pinot noir, in its youth, is brash and crisp and lush and silky, ...
California's 2011 chardonnay is in the market now, and -- despite some weather challenges -- it's an excellent vintage.
Late frosts and a cool, rainy start to summer in some areas had growers worried, but a September heat wave saved the day. In ...
America's love affair with wine continues. We're pulling further ahead of Europe, but seeing increased competition from China. That's the conclusion of a new study by Vinexpo, the world's most influential wine exhibition, which takes place June 16...
If there's an official wine of today's fabulous 21-something generation, it's the Italian bubbly called prosecco. It's as "amazing," as that group would say, as texting or Twitter, while regular champagne and sparkling wine are as 20th century as ...