The wine shop clerk told me the wine was very dry, but when I took my purchase home and pulled the cork, I found it to be too sweet for me. Yet again, I learned that taking the advice of wine store clerks can be a mixed bag, and often leads to an inappropriate purchase—…

Australia’s biggest wine producer will shut down one of its Victorian wineries, leaving about 60 vintners and staff out of a job. ASX-listed Treasury Wine Estates announced it would sell its Karadoc winery by mid-2024, saying the change would allow the company to focus on its luxury and premium wine portfolios. The move comes amid…

One of my friends is an avid birder. Her fascination combines a love of the outdoors with an almost scientific study of native and migrating species. She views them, records their numbers, and (with the aid of her expert’s gear) produces beautiful photographs. She also appreciates fine wine. So why not enjoy an adventurous day…

Once upon a time in the West, Paso Robles was a sleepy little railroad town in central California midway on the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Freight cars rumbled through, and twice a day the spectacular orange, black, and silver steam locomotives known as the Coast Daylight would pull into the depot—one…

A century ago, many of the finest French red wines were known to improve after they had been aged for a decade or more in a cool cellar. The main reason was that the wines were basically undrinkable when they were young. Winemaking back then was fairly rudimentary and the astringency that developed in such…

One hour’s drive south of Portland, Oregon, lies the Willamette Valley, land of world-class pinot noir, hops heaven, and change-makers who are transforming the future of travel. Towns thrive along the great Willamette River, including Portland, its largest city. It’s also home to Salem, the state capital, and more than half of the state’s population…

Australia’s wine producers are being prepped by the sector into exporting wine to India—a market worth $24 billion. This follows successful talks that were held at the Australia-India Joint Dialogue in New Delhi between Australian and Indian wine sector representatives. The news also comes as Australian wine won the “the best in the world” at this…

Cambria, on California’s Central Coast, is one of those special destinations. It offers a spectacular coastline with an abundance of cliff-side trails, verdant hills and valleys ideal for cattle ranching, vineyards and open-air landscape painting. Architecturally Cambria features a remarkable collection of original 19th-century salt-box homes and an early 20th-century downtown district known as East…

When we want to avoid cooking to keep the kitchen cool, dry rose wines are among the most perfect hot-weather refreshments to accompany salads and other uncooked summer meals. Memorial Day is the unofficial beginning of summer, so today we look at pink wines, which have been, for roughly the last decade, all the rage…

“Like fine old wine.” We’ve all heard people use versions of this timeworn saying, which suggests that the aging of any wine improves it. That may be true for about 1 percent of the wines in this world, but it has sad consequences for the other 99 percent. Most of the wines we drink tend…