Grace, elegance, delicacy finesse: wine attributes not much treasured these days. Punch you in the face pointy pounders get all the glossy headlines. In the same way such wines anesthetize my palate, the heavy food required to stand up to these wines...

You walk into the wine shop to buy a bottle of Champagne for New Year's Eve 2011. Greeted by a wall of unfamiliar brands you whip out your iPhone 5Gs and start scanning bar codes on the bottles. Your browser pops open with pages of reviews and...

Last week I had them right in my sights. In the crosshairs was The Wine Enthusiast and the painful, slutty commercialism of their “Wine Star” awards. I put up a blistering post, but later took it down. Why?” Because it doesn’t matter and I’m tired of...

Eight photo stars fill the full page ad, all are white guys, three with coats and ties and five more with blazers. Two look like they could make wine. Out of the eleven winning “Wine Stars” of this year’s Wine Enthusiast Awards only one makes wine, the...

Cabernet Colors - November in Yountville Posted via email from Wine Camp Blog/Posterous Edition