The wine snob that I am, I particularly take pride in my disregard of well known wine pundits, names such as Robert Parker, and my own opinion of the subject acquired by my own tastings. It is thus with much humility that I will...
Read MoreThe esteemed movie director Francis Ford Coppola, of “Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” fame, nowadays is more a winemaker than an artist, presiding over an ever enlarging wine conglomerate in Napa and...
Read MoreGrowing up in the Istanbul of the 60’s, we were accustomed to shortages of basic necessities as a way of life. Included among these was running water and electricity. These services were not continuous. The city was rapidly...
Read MoreGreetings from Turkey. Travelling in my original home country for two weeks I have found myself in a wine desert. While I am quite sure of the existence of a fine wine culture in the country, especially in Istanbul, I am not on...
Read MoreWhat I am about to recount has become a common refrain in the wine world. Maybe it will come out with a bit of a personal spin.I recently joined a red wine club at K & L, a Bay Area wine chain, which sends me two bottles a...
Read MoreThis past Saturday, the Wall Street Journal had a startling proclamation on its front page, above the fold, above the label: “the fraud of wine by the glass”, it announced. Inside was their weekly wine column, now...
Read MoreAmong my wine tasting friends, my dislike of Italian wines has become legendary and solidified into a long-standing joke. If I say “it tastes Italian”, it is synonymous with, “the wine is no good”. Truth...
Read MoreIn the Francophile culture of my wine tasting group a cardinal rule of wine collecting is that domestic wines, especially Napa, do not lend themselves to long term cellaring, and those who undertake such ventures are foolhardy....
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