Bargain Bottles

★★★Exceptional ★★Excellent ★Very Good Prices are approximate. Check Winesearcher.com to verify availability, or ask a favorite wine store to order through a distributor. Here are my monthly recommendations of over-performing wines; these cost $13 or less. They include a German Riesling, a viognier blend from southern France and two tempranillos that show once again that Spain is a leading source ...

Fine Wine, Nifty Profit

For reliable investment-grade wine, look only to France, principally select wines from Bordeaux, and a few from Burgundy and the Rhone Valley.

Chardonnay marks 100th birthday of growth in U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chardonnay, the world's most popular white wine, dates back centuries, but it owes much of its history in the United States to a winemaker who planted the grape in California 100 years ago. Ernest Wente, of the family-owned Wente Vineyards east of San Francisco, brought cuttings from Montpelier, France in 1912 and planted them in California. Now, although worldwide there are ...

11 wines that score 90 points or better

These high-ranking reds and whites, from Ontario to France to Hungary, provide (another) inarguable reason to huddle indoors with a glass or two

In France, vintners erase a notorious past

GRIGNAN, France — The vintners around this ocher-stone village in the Tricastin region of southern France had it all: rolling hills, a historic chateau, sun-splashed lavender fields between their vines and a tart little wine dating from Roman times. Read full article >>