Wine News

Vino California began its weeklong paean to Italian wine Tuesday with the trade seminar: Call to Calabria: Discovering Wines From the Toe of Italy's Peninsula.

The great, big elephant in the room that everyone prefers not to talk about is wine spoilage.

It's almost summertime in the city, and for me that means two things: Spending more time outdoors and drinking wine.

Terry Cooper Sullivan of Talent's Upper Five Vineyard just might be the only wine producer outside of Burgundy, France, who made the smallest amount of wine - 75 cases in 2010 - that earned a 90-point rating from Wine Spectator .

Laura Volkman Vineyards is transitioning to Potter's Vineyard . A change of ownership and name in the Oregon wine country isn't all that unusual.

The Voice of Firestone returns to the small screen. In a big way. Kultur has released three new titles in their eagerly-anticipated nod to the TV show of yesteryear.

Try it with calamari or other fried fish or fowl, mild curries and a perennial challenge, asparagus.

If you're serious about collecting wines of rarity and significance, then you could do worse than cast your eye over the offerings at the 22nd Hawke's Bay Winegrowers' Charity Fine Wine Auction this Queen's Birthday weekend.

Original and interesting white wines always emerge in the market this time of year.

Brandon Allen, CEO of Santa Barbara-based vineyard Slo Down wines, bares his buns in a thong and cheekless chaps to promote the vintner's "Sexual Chocolate" wine.

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Annandale Community Yard Sale When/Where: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Long Branch Subdivision, the intersection of Braddock Road and Guinea Road What: Multi-family community yard sale.

We were hearing from some wine growers in Loudoun County earlier this week that a late spring frost had a detrimental effect on the grape crop this year.

There are hundreds of wine varieties in the world, but Friday, the fourth annual International Sauvignon Blanc Day, is dedicated to just one.

It's Friday, which means many of us are just counting the minutes until happy hour.

Two vineyards received seasonal licenses this week to sell wine at the Braintree Farmers Market that begins June 15.

"What's your favorite wine?" I get asked this a ton, and I get it. We have favorite football teams, grocery stores, uncles.

It's a wine of taffeta, well woven and of good yarn," said the French Renaissance writer and epicure Francois Rabelais of the charms of a chenin blanc.

When the Virginia Arts Festival performs at the Williamsburg Winery on Thursday, May 23, the menu will pair chamber music with fine food and wines.

Bacchus Capital Management first tapped into Oregon's wine country by investing in Dundee-based Wine by Joe in 2011.