It’s Time for the Big Kickoff
Well, it’s about time! We wine lovers have been waiting for a few weeks now to have a chance to taste all the wines that ...
Sheer Lunarcy
I am writing about wine and the moon under a clear night sky in a blast of lunar light (augmented by the illumination of a ...
Que Syrah Shiraz
Que Syrah, Shiraz. We are in the midst of “Shiraz Week,” an event of monumental wishful thinking and very possibly, some satisfying drinking. The first ...
Vega at the Apex
The wide popularity of Spanish wine today is a relatively new phenomenon. Today we sip cava at parties, have albariño with seafood and discuss Priorat ...
I (Heart) Wine
Every wine writer dreads early February because we are expected to unabashedly pontificate about wines suitable for Valentine’s Day. Yes, that day is coming up, ...
Going For The Gold, One Glass At A Time
Most of the loyal patrons and supporters of VeritageMiami see the event as a once a year occurrence, with the craft beer tasting, the wine ...
All That Glitters Is Not (Necessarily) Gold
January 25th and 26th, some of South Florida’s top sommeliers gathered on their rare days off to work even harder than they do at their ...
Mulling Over The Holidays
With the year-end holidays comes a festive atmosphere and, for this transplanted Northerner now living in Florida, I admit there is also a certain longing ...
Thanks-drinking
The wine question I am asked more than any other is actually not so much about wine as it is about food: “What wine goes ...
Wine in the Off Season
November is one of the most active times in the wine world, and a pretty slow time for those of us in the wine festival ...