Wine snobs incense me, and when they ask what flavors and smells I detect in a glass, I often opt to tell them I get a lot of dead yeast on the nose, distinct hints of vine fruit, and fermented

We’ve all been there, at a picnic or on a train, you remembered the bottle of wine, but not the corkscrew.  If you’re at a construction site, the simple solution is to drive a screw into the cork and lever

My darkest secret:

I’m not great at picking out wine.

Like a chump, I never turn down waiters’ recommendations, because I figure they know better. Invite me to dinner and I’ll happily bring wine, but suffer while surfing the web from my

Just because you are on a budget, doesn’t mean you need to drink bad wine. OK, that was tacky.  If I ever write  like Rachel Ray again, please find me and slit my throat.  I’m not a connoisseur, but my