Classic Wines

Wine lovers are famously in-tune with the nuances of food and beverage. Wine, being complex and dynamic, provides drinkers with a different experience every time they open a bottle. Unfortunately, due to its alcoholic nature, wine is only appropriate at certain times of day. What else could capture wine lover's attention in the same way? Host Brian Freedman contends that coffee is answer. Discussing high end coffee's from Jax Coffee House, Brian compares the diverse tasting palate that good coffee provides. If wine owns the nighttime, certainly coffee is king all day!

When the mercury soars, few wines are more refreshing--or delicious with summertime food--than sauvignon blanc. And with some of the best values these days coming out of Chile and Argentina, we decided to pit two titans of South American wine production against each other in this week's Weekly Wine Showdown. Both the Casa Lapostolle 2005 and the Montes Limited Selection 2005 Leyda Valley showed bright notes of citrus fruit and that telltale grassy aroma. But in the end, the winner was clear, and only one of these two wines reigned supreme.