SharePink wine from California is usually off-putting. Either it’s too sweet, as in a white zinfandel. Or the pink is too, well, red — as in too fruity and alcoholic, and lacking the earthy notes and refreshing acidity of a rosé with a good European pedigree.
But I was won over recently by a Sonoma County [...]

ShareI confess I love Wine Spectator magazine. I know it’s biased toward domestic wines. I realize its 100-point rating system (which it stole from Robert Parker) oversimplifies. And it really irks me that all the featured critics, every last one of them, is male. (I mean, come on guys, in a wine world populated by [...]

ShareFrom the spit-not-swallow department: Some of you may have read the hilarious report in the New York Times yesterday about “wine tasters gone wild” in the Long Island wine region of New York state — complete with stories of limo-loads of bachelorettes dancing on table tops, inebriated haywagon riders running naked through the vines, and [...]

ShareDear Wine Girl:
Thank you for bringing that rosé wine as a housewarming gift. You told us not to save it, but to enjoy it young and fresh, so we did. We had a friend visiting who is an aficionado and he was really blown away. You told us it a special bottle and that it [...]