Seeing Green, Drinking Red

Oregon has established itself as a world class area for Pinot Noir production. Take a short drive southeast of Portland and you will find yourself in the Spiritual Home for American Pinot Noir. Nestled in th ....

Best of Both Worlds: Ripasso

By and Large, everyone who has familiarity with red wine knows that Italy has a lot of it, and not just Chianti. Italy is perhaps the most diverse in its varieties of grapes and styles of wine. Often such ....

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German Sweets, The Drier Side

“Riesling? Oh, that’s sweet” or perhaps, “I don’t drink a lot of German wine, but they are all too sweet” seems a common misconception applied to this wonderful white wi ....

MALBEC: The Black Gold of Argentina

Malbec is a truly unique grape. As is true for many grapes its origins lay in France, where it has been to make wines for hundreds of years. However it has recently exploded on to the world’ ....