The Old Fashioned and the Champagne Cocktail may seem worlds apart, but both trace their lineage to the original 19th-century “cocktail” format of spirit, sugar, water, and bitters. Here’s the surprising origin of the Champagne classic and how it connects to the very...

I’ve been writing about wine for about 15 years and one of the most persistent themes I’ve covered is that winemaking should be considered an art form. But this has always been a tough sell, even a…

Single vineyard wines—wines from a single plot of earth that express "crystalline clarity of time and place." Today we're tasting six single vineyard wines f...