Elizabeth Gabay, MW is one of the world’s foremost authorities on rosé wines. Her recent book, Rosé: Understanding the Pink Wine Revolution has quickly established itself as the definitive guide on ...

It may sound cliché, but half the fun of drinking wine is learning about what’s in your glass. If we’re being honest, not even a lifetime of studying could lead to mastery of the subject but… that’s ...

Actors Nickolas Grace (L) and Jeremy Irons in character as Anthony Blanche and Charles Ryder on the set of period drama Brideshead Revisited, circa 1981. (Photo by TV Times via Getty Images) James ...

As much as I love Italian red wines, and I really do, the entire subject is hard to write about, and not least because writers get little help from the producers. Let's start with the greatest red in ...

Learn about the "bones" of wine. Tannin is a compound in wine that's naturally occurring in the seeds, stems, and skins of grapes (it's also found in bark, wood, and leaves.) The term tannin came from ...

You may have heard the phrase “Cult Wine” or “Cult Cabernet” and wondered what exactly it meant. Well, fear not, for there is no exact meaning. Rather, it is a term that is sometimes used to describe ...

These six volumes, all published in 2022, are illuminating, surprising and just plain useful guides to better understanding wine and spirits. By Eric Asimov Wine, and spirits, have been with us for ...

I took special care dressing the first time I attended a wine auction, so I would fit in with the boorish snobs and self-important elitists I assumed would be there. Then a jeans- and T-shirt-clad ...

WE LIVE IN a grape-centric age, when a grape variety is more than just a name on a label. For some wine drinkers, it’s a means of self-definition. I’ve heard people declare “I’m a Pinot Noir person” ...

Before I started learning about wine seriously, I was curious but confused. Wine labels seemed to conceal more than they revealed. I assumed Bordeaux and Chianti were types of grapes. I thought screw ...

It occurred to me recently that while Reverse Wine Snob is meant to be friendly enough that someone who knows nothing about wine could read it, I do use a number of terms in my wine reviews that may ...

One of the things that can make reading wine labels a little confusing is that American wine tends to call out the grape varietal, while many European wines are named according to region. “Bourgogne” ...