Classic Wines

New York State produces some of the most interesting wines in America, and it is only for reasons of fashion and assumption that it is not as popular as some of the country's more traditional wine-producing states like California or Oregon. The trut...

Few wines get connoisseurs more excited than Barbaresco. These gorgeous red wines from the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy are made from the Nebbiolo grape variety, arguably Italy's most noble. They tend to be powerful and elegant, with a typi...

A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to make a commitment and actually do this. My friends were sick of my constant blabbering, and it was time to prove that I wasn't all talk. Not wanting to be some kind of poseur, I got down to business. It was ti...

For winemakers, harvest season is a race against time. The bulk of work in creating wine happens during just a few weeks, making it by far the busiest and most stressful time of the year. It is not uncommon for hired hands on vineyards and wineries to...

I went to see "The Chaos Theories" by Alexander Dinelaris the other evening on the Upper West Side. A friend of mine had produced it, I really knew nothing about it, but I always get all bouncy about comp tickets. Luckily for me (& the frien...

Another fire raged through Malibu last weekend. While I watched from the comfort of my home, enormous airtankers dropped water bombs the size of swimming pools on the angry flames. Serious fires burn through southern California every few years, but t...

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classic Wines Minute, brought to you by ClassicWines.com. I am your host, Brian Freedman, and today we're here in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in the Delaware Valley's premier winemaking center. We are in The Wine Room and...

A lot of people recently have wanted to step out of the ranks of being an appreciative audience, join in and begin making their own wine - but how? No better time than the New Year to put that shelved dream into action! What some of you don't know ...