POSTED // Jan 6,2010 - The average consumer takes 60 seconds with a restaurant wine list before making a selection. This particular statistic speaks volumes.

POSTED // Dec 23,2009 - There are no multimillion-dollar tasting rooms in the town of Hopland.

POSTED // Dec 9,2009 - It’s a common phenomenon: We open prized bottles, expecting a prize experience.

POSTED // Nov 18,2009 - Being a creature of impulse with little self-control, I find it difficult in my line of work to exhibit restraint. (Each week, for example, I am forcibly ejected for sweet-tooth sins from the ice-crea

POSTED // Nov 18,2009 - Even when surrounded by holiday cheer, tryptophan-induced turkey lethargy and the suppressed rage of extended-family holiday gatherings...

POSTED // Sep 30,2009 - I rolled the wine around my mouth and sure enough, snap...

POSTED // Sep 2,2009 - I too am susceptible to peer pressure. I, too, love Pinot Noir...

POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - The sky went a sullen gray, and then with a crack and a boom and a sky etched with electric thrusts and haywire light, a New York City deluge soaked me to the bone...

POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - Just because you can't pronounce it doesn't mean you shouldn't drink it. I am, of course, speaking only about your wine-store sojourns and not any inventory of under-thesink abrasives and chemicals...

POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - Aromas stab at that deep, dark part of the brain that tells us we need to eat, sleep, hump and not stick our hand into the flame. Fairness and rationality have nothing to do with it...