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Best Wines For Winter

The mountains of the world have regained their snowy peaks and the northern hemisphere is getting ready to settle into the deep, cold months of winter. Although the days are finally getting longer,...

When In Doubt: Champagne

Fried chicken. That's the recommendation. If you take nothing else from this piece, take that: Champagne and fried chicken is one of the great pairings in wine, and we will stand by that against ...

Best Wines for Aging

You found a bottle. Maybe you bought it for a birthday that hasn't happened yet. Maybe it was a gift from someone who said it gets better with time. Maybe you just picked something off a shelf beca...

Best Kosher Wine for Hanukkah

The Jewish Festival of Lights is a wonderful autumnal gift-giving opportunity, as well as a time to celebrate life with dear friends, family, and fare around a traditional menorah. Wine and Judaism...

Best Wine for Football Games and Tailgates

I mentioned the title of this article to a few friends earlier this week and they all seemed shocked. “Wine doesn’t go with football, that’s a beer-drinking sport!” they all said. Apprehensive comm...

6 Go-To Wines to Keep You Warm This Fall

As much as we hate to kiss summer goodbye, there’s no season we love more than the fall. Known for crisp afternoons, cozy nights, and a continuous sense of harvest looming in the air, fall mon...

Best Wine for Scallops

Their shells symbolize beauty, grace and love, and their succulent and delicate meat is unlike any other seafood we’ve ever tried. A mouthwatering mollusk which is also capable of producing pearls,...

Sweet Red Wine, Explained: The Best Bottles to Try (and What Makes Them Sweet)

A sweet red wine is a red wine with noticeable residual sugar: the grape sugar that's left over after fermentation, instead of being converted entirely into alcohol. Winemakers get there a few way...

The Best Fall Wines to Pour This Season

Fall wine is less about the calendar and more about what's on the stove. Once the first real chill shows up and dinner moves from the grill to the Dutch oven, the bottles we reach for change with i...

'Gaux to the World of Natural Wine

No category of wine sparks debate like that of natural wine. Love it, hate it, or simply just don’t understand it, this hands-off style of winemaking is becoming more and more popular amongst consu...