Wine News

Special to the Daily Elway's Sommelier Jim Lay created this "Contrary Mary" cocktail, which is a twist on the typical bloody mary; instead of red tomatoes, he uses yellow tomatoes for the drinks base.

Beautiful Natirar Park in Peapack-Gladstone in Somerset County will once again provide the scenic backdrop when the Garden State Wine Growers Association hosts their annual Blues & Wine Festival on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-26 from Noon-5 p.m. each day.

The Ontario Consumer's Riesling Challenge returns to Guelph today. It's an annual event held at the LCBO outlet at 615 Scottsdale Dr., and runs from noon to 4 p.m. More than a dozen Ontario wineries will be pouring samples and consumers can taste and vote on their favourites in two categories, dry and off-dry. The tasting costs $10 for four ... (more)

Memorial Day weekend is one of the first and best barbecue weekends of the summer season.

Three months ago, Mira Winery in Napa embarked on a grand experiment: It lowered 48 bottles of its 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon into the ocean outside Charleston, S.C. in a custom-built cage to see what aging in the sea would do to the wine's flavor.

The Albuquerque Wine Festival this weekend will bring together vineyards that are part of a $60 million industry in the Land of Enchantment.

You can't help but notice all the signs along the highway pointing you into the direction of a winery.

From left, acting caretaker Agriculture Minister Gebran Bassil, caretaker Economy Minister Nicolas Nahas and former MP Salim Warde attend a conference at the ministry in Beirut, Friday, May 24, 2013.

Take the A51 autostrada out of Milan, and half an hour later you'll arrive in the small town of Brugarolo.

Long before the 2003 movie "Under the Tuscan Sun," Americans had a love affair with Tuscany, the Italian region that is home to Florence, Siena and a hundred charming less-famous hill towns.

Not to put too fine a point on it - or encourage excess - but by far the best way to learn about wine is to drink it.

Historically, French wine has dominated the Russian import market. In 2012, 37.4 million bottles of still wine from France were imported into Russia - 20.25 percent of all imports.

Except for the color, a deep rose, the 2012 A Cote Rose is reminiscent of a Bandol rose.

London luxury department store Selfridges has officially launched a new bar and relocated, redesigned wine shop with more space than ever before.

The discovery of wine is one of the most compelling aspects of this business, and in fact of the whole wine enthusiast culture.

Larry and Lenora Woodham planted grapes in this small East Manatee town, preparing for the day when they were mature enough to be used for wine.

Mike Dunham didn't plan to get into the wine business. But when it happened, he embraced the Walla Walla wine scene - and it loved him back.

If wine lovers could picture an eco-friendly and very modern-looking wine house on a sunny vineyard, this design by Michael Jantzen would be it.

The owner of a winery in Grindstone is looking forward to the exposure he'll get at the New Festival of Wines Grand Tastings today and Saturday at the Charlottetown Civic Centre.

Treading Art has been putting together an amazing list of weekend events around Pittsburgh.