VinoFictions

Here it is, the close of 2009. The interminable “best of” lists are everywhere, and as it is with individual wines, the many lists face agre...

Ah, for the days when top wines sold at about $4 a bottle—yes, I am old enough to remember. Besides, the 1970s isn’t that long ago. Among t...

When I first saw the title, Wine Trials, I immediately thought it had something to do with a recent story about phony wines that a collector...

As if it seemed at all possible, the Internet has given SPAM a bad name. This product (chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt,...

Once more, I allowed myself the masochistic enjoyment of entering into a debate about wine evaluations and ratings. Each time I get into one...

Patient: “Doctor, doctor, Claude Rains is in my brains or at least one of his characters is. All day long for the past week my mind has rep...

Have you heard that every palate is a snowflake? What a lovely sentiment; its meaning is, of course, that we have individual and unique pal...