Bill St. John

Bubbles work this time of year; pink bubbles work it. For your year-end sparkling wines, why not drink in the pink? Many producers of French Champagne make a rosé Champagne....

The most frequent request that I receive from readers or peeps on the street is, "What's a good deal these days?" What most of them really mean is "What's a...

Yum, what a delicious wintertime dish, with stimulating aromas and flavors to force a way through cold and damp, even doldrums. Certain wines do that too, with their heady perfumes,...

One wine and food pairing strategy is to echo flavors, even colors. "Red wine, red meat" is the most common example, but you'll also see riffs, say, on "sauvignon blanc...

One wine and food pairing strategy is to echo flavors, even colors. "Red wine, red meat" is the most common example, but you'll also see riffs, say, on "sauvignon blanc...

Well-made Argentine malbec is about as delicious, juicy and smooth a red wine as there is. It tastes close to a liquid version of chocolate-covered cherries, perhaps with a hint...

The word "fruity," when describing a wine, tends to carry negative baggage; it's often conflated with "sweet," the great bugaboo of wine appreciation. (This, despite that we seem to enjoy...

Australia, of course, is the original shrimp-on-the-barbie country; all the recommended wines here are from Down Under — two whites and a lean, precise red. It's no matter that there's...

Wine with hot dogs? C'mon. The default adult beverage with the pups may be beer, but consider that a slew of wines are very beerlike indeed. They're the sparklers, the...