The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles is unique among the wine competitions I regularly attend as a judge. For one thing, it skips from country to country each year. The 2012 Concours was staged in Portugal, while this year, for the first time, it ...

As Memorial Day, the official kickoff to the outdoor barbecue season, looms in the not-too-distant future, it's not too soon to ponder the wines of summer, aka grilling wines.

The caveat here is that no matter the season, no matter the cuisine, ...

For the uninitiated, corkage is the fee a restaurant charges for the service it provides when a customer chooses to bring his or her own wine rather than order off the restaurant's wine list. In my experience, corkage fees can range anywhere from...

There is a tendency among wine drinkers to be more forgiving in their evaluation of wines that cost less. It's a reasonable approach, but sometimes unnecessary. The markets are chock full of cheap wines that deliver excellent quality along with a...

Tapping into the pleasure of wine would seem to be a simple matter of popping a cork and pouring the wine into a decent glass, and for the most part it is. Yet there are easy things anyone can do that might enhance the experience.

Half the ...

Wine enthusiasts of a certain age will remember when a bottle of Mateus or Lancers rose -- both light, slightly sweet, slightly spritzy -- signaled a big night out. Truth be told, it was the uniquely shaped bottles of these two Portuguese pinks ...