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Dale Cruse explains; Champagne isn’t just for breakfast anymore

If you look closely at what I write, you'll find I don't love drinking just for the sake of drinking. I rarely - if ever - write about wine as an "object." Reading other people's tasting notes make me want to put a gun in my mouth. Instead, I write...

Mad Men: Not Enough Wine

Liquor matters as much as any character on "Mad Men," AMC’s sick series about ’60s Madison Avenue ad execs. It probably matters as much to the show as the voluptuous Joan Holloway or the duplicitous Pete Campbell. So where did all of these characters, including our favorite imbiber, Don Draper,...

It happened one summer

I cried in summer for madder music and for stronger...

And our winner is…

My love for wine has been like my love for men, ever changing and maturing. First I would always go for the sweets ones (super fruity, white Zinfandels and dare I say Franzian in nature). And that was nice, but we all know how those sweet ones just end up...

Paolo Fiorenzo: Stemware’s consumate artist

"My inspiration for the shape of the glass, fell on the form designed by the letter B (word Belém). It was then set across the board with the same form. The forms give to the glass a touch of sensuality, elegance and beauty. The glasses will be produced, and there...

Bob Guccione Jr. wants in the wine publishing business

"For the first time in 50 years characters in rock and roll really don't stand for anything. Music has become more manufactured than a Ford Focus ... The culture of wine is rich and fascinating. There are more rock stars in the wine world than there are in...

The perfect pool wines

Let's begin the search for the perfect pool wines with the obvious. This pool is in Japan and the pictures taken back in 2007 but it is indicative of the importance of wine in the Japanese culture. If the health benefits of drinking vino are so apparent, logic...

Good wine but your date is in ruin?

Your whole evening is turning into a serious douche situation. You know the drill. The guy resembles nothing like his online avatar. He's not 6' 2" and those are probably plugs, plus you have serious doubts about the whole winner of last year's Boston Marathon story, you...

Leah Hennessy talkin wine and her g-g-g-generation

I wrote the open letter because I think Steve Heimoff's post represented an attitude among individuals in the wine industry of frustration and head-in-sand reactions to this nascent focus on younger drinkers. It reminds me of not-so-long ago when the same people had the same reactions to facebook..I find it...

Musicians and the love for Vino

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam loves his Vino. He routinely strolls out on stage with his notebook in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other. In a 2007 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Vedder was asked about the wine he drinks on stage. His brief admission that...