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At long last, Axel Heinz and Ornellaia release a rival to their celebrated red; plus, eight other bottles of Tuscan white wine to collect now.
- DEPARTURES
Decades of high tariffs kept the country’s wine producers from exporting abroad. But at long last, Swiss bottles are popping up on menus and merchants’ shelves.
- DEPARTURES
Blind tastings, in which wine aficionados challenge each other to identify a bottle without seeing the label, are part parlor game and part blood sport. But according to writer Anthony Giglio, they’re mostly a useless display of ego.
- FOOD & WINE
An expert’s opinion on which bottles pair best with pizza, popcorn, pork rinds, and other guilty pleasures.
- YAHOO! LIFESTYLE
The Wine Wise Guy has had it—for the last time! —with people drinking their Chardonnay straight from the fridge.
- FOOD & WINE
As the Jolie-Pitt divorce focuses on custody of their kids, the rosé-drinking public holds its breath to learn the fate of Brad and Angelina's seventh offspring: baby Miraval Rosé, which the couple produced in 2012.
- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Anthony Giglio, the Wine Wise Guy, weighs in on why he blushes (really) with rage when he hears people insult pink wine.
- FOOD & WINE
The Wine Wise Guy weighs in on whether the Rolls Royce of corkscrews is worth the splurge.
- FOOD & WINE
Sipping what felt like an 80-degree Cabernet at Soho Steak last summer, I had an epiphany when a French couple nearby ordered a sweat-dripping bottle of Brouilly. I asked the waiter why that red wine wasn’t listed as “chilled.” “The French know better,” he said, shrugging.
- NEW YORK MAGAZINE | INTELLIGENCER
Hey, Burgundy fans: What’s the best Beaujolais you’ve had lately? If I’ve lost you entirely, it’s because I’m doing it on purpose to prove several points that I’ll clear up now, starting with this: Beaujolais is the best Burgundy you will ever pay so little for, and it’s exactly what you should be sipping this spring and summer.
- OBSERVER
Hey, Burgundy fans: What’s the best Beaujolais you’ve had lately? If I’ve lost you entirely, it’s because I’m doing it on purpose to prove several points that I’ll clear up now, starting with this: Beaujolais is the best Burgundy you will ever pay so little for, and it’s exactly what you should be sipping this spring and summer.
- OBSERVER
“Champagne?” When you’re asked this at parties, there’s a good chance that what’s being passed around in the flutes is something cheap that’s not only not Champagne, it’s probably not even made like Champagne.
- LA CUCINA ITALIANA
If you compared Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello di Montalcino to the “Three Tenors,” which wine would be symbolized by which legendary voice?
- LA CUCINA ITALIANA
