Wine
Dallas’ newest hotspot, Bowl and Barrel, feels like a restaurant, feels like a sports bar, feels like a chic place to meet for drinks – it just doesn’t feel like a bowling alley. “[...]
06 Dec 2012
One of the great joys of Italian wine is also why Italian wine is so frustrating. There are too many wines and too many regions and too much to understand, but the thrill of findin[...]
05 Dec 2012
The epic decline in the Australian wine industry has been well documented; the wineries that have survived have done so because they have been that much better than the rest of the[...]
28 Nov 2012
Domaine D’Arton, a white blend from the Gascony region of France, is great cheap wine, even by my exacting standards. It’s not only on a level with the Gascon wines in the $10 Hall[...]
21 Nov 2012
Never has one kind of wine been so confusing to so many people; Ask the Wine Guy; and Texas pecan cake.[...]
19 Nov 2012
It’s Brithday Week on my wine blog, celebrating five years by giving away a $50 Wine.com gift card. And, since it is a milestone, a wine review as a short story, complete wit[...]
14 Nov 2012
Sometimes, one forgets old friends. Not intentionally, of course, but because of the press of business and the rush of life. There are new wines to try and more posts to write, and[...]
07 Nov 2012
I practically gushed about this wine during my recent chat with Robert Hall winemaker Don Brady, the native Texas turned top California winemaker. This is the kind of California wi[...]
31 Oct 2012
The holidays are the best wine time of the year, when even people who don’t drink wine figure it’s OK to have a glass or two. And, perhaps, if they enjoy that glass or two, they’ll[...]
25 Oct 2012
Last week’s discussion about the book “Grape-a-hol” made me wonder: Do I do enough to find $10 wine that doesn’t taste like grape juice with alcohol? Are th[...]
24 Oct 2012
Chateau Ste. Michelle, the Washington state multi-national that does the 14 Hands, is on a roll. It placed four brands in the top 20 in a recent survey of best-selling $10 wines, o[...]
17 Oct 2012
Gavi is one of those Italian wines that lingers in a netherworld – not as popular as pinot grigio or even Soave and not always easy to find. But when it’s done well, it[...]
10 Oct 2012
