Classic Wines

In the last 30 years, the United States has emerged as one of the single most important wine-producing countries in the world. This is a result of both the maturation of the American wine industry and the evolution of the American palate, which now ...

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...

Sangiovese is generally believed to have originated in Tuscany, though it is now grown fairly widely throughout Central and Southern Italy. It is, along with Nebbiolo, the most widely-planted grape variety in Italy. When it is made into a varietal w...

Zinfandel, sadly, suffered from a bad reputation for many years, due to the popularity in the United States of an inexpensive and sweet pink wine called White Zinfandel. Zinfandel varietal wines, however, have as much relation to White Zinfandel as ...

Meet our new Wine and the City columnist - Romany Reagan...

I had moved to New York to pursue my acting career and was enjoying varying degrees of success. However as with all lives in art, we all need a day job - and cubicles have never be...

Hello fellow oenophiles - welcome to my column! My name is Romany, I live in NYC & I like to drink wine. A lot. So right there we have something in common. It has been a rather crazy past few months for me, embarking on the world of wine took me ou...

The 21st Amendment was ratified on Dec. 5th 1933. Naturally you want to celebrate, but hmmm... where to go? I find the most befitting setting for an anniversary to be a winebar, and for me nothing is better than a New York City Winebar. Well lucky y...

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 ...