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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 Thanksgiving

Everyone has one staple Thanksgiving dish that is their die-hard, go-to, there-will-be-no-leftovers favorite. And whether yours is mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, or the ce...

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...

Best Wine for Oysters

Oysters and wine: a pairing for the ages. We’re willing to go out on a limb and say that oysters and wine were the first intentional food pairing ever made (realistically it was actually probably b...

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 Salmon

Salmon are magical animals. Their lives are epic: they hatch from eggs laid in freshwater, swim hundreds of miles to the ocean to mature and grow, then swim back to the same stream in which they we...

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,...

Best Sweet Red Wine for Beginners

Wine can be a bit of a challenge if you’re not already a fan of the genre. And we don’t mean the culture, history, or complex tasting techniques -- you don’t have to know anything about any of that...

Best Wine for Autumn

Summer is winding down. The hot-weather party animals are packing up their barbecues, pulling back from the beaches, and getting ready to go back indoors. The party still rages on -- just in a much...

Best Wine for Pizza

They go together like peanut butter and jelly; like ice cream and birthday cake; like...well...pizza and wine!  These two iconic Italian staples were quite literally made for each other (or at lea...