ShareOur latest assignment at the Ladies Tasting Society is to blind-taste a selection of wines from Italy that are pure sangiovese — that is, 100 percent, virgin sangiovese, the native (and woefully underappreciated) grape variety of Tuscany. It’s as if sangiovese were the first love and first wife of Tuscan winemakers, to whom she bore [...]

ShareHere’s a Greek wine that makes me want to hold my glass out for more, rather than throw it in the fire: Manousakis Nostos 2003, a red blend from a mountainside vineyard on Crete, rocked a recent dinner we enjoyed at the San Francisco Hellenic institution Kokkari Estiatorio.
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ShareI just got back from vacation on the Riviera Maya in Mexico and although it’s pretty hard to find fault with 10 days of snorkeling, sunbathing, and shooting tequila, I did miss drinking good wine. When we were on Isla Mujeres and our only source was the local Supermini (now there’s an oxymoron for you), [...]