Bill St. John

The nods to India or Southeast Asia in this dish earn their own nods to full-flavored, even "spicy" wines as happy balances or table mates. Not much within the dish...

Blessings can be curses, in wine as in much else. We in this country are blessed to be able to buy wine from a selection vast and varied, far more...

You will often hear the red Tuscan wine Rosso di Montalcino called "a baby Brunello (di Montalcino)" or a Valpolicella Ripasso nicknamed "a baby Amarone (della Valpolicella)." While the "baby"...

Up until the late 1960s, the wines of Italy were a truly homespun lot, made in massive quantity — and at low quality — for the country's domestic market. At...

More than a bit of wisdom undergirds the adage "Drink wine from the region with food from the region," the idea being that the two would not have grown up...

You may taste many things in a sip of red wine: a panoply of fruit flavors, earth or minerals, spicy wood, even the cleansing astringency of tannin. In a wine...

Alsace has been doing something for decades that most other winemaking areas of the world just recently have caught onto: allow both the grapes and the soil on which they...

In the course of my work, I meet many winemakers from countries around the globe. Their conversations with me pass on so much about wine — what it means to...

Some foods present obstacles to enjoying wine on account of their given nature, never mind in what manner we prepare them (with oil, for example, or salt or sugar). Such...

Popular wines mean popular problems. For example, take pinot grigio. Please. Whose is better; whose is best? Aren't they all pretty much the same? If the pinot grigio craze started...