Bill St. John

Whenever folks ask me where they might find the better values in wine coming from Italy, I pull a sort of "Horacio" Greeley on them and say, "Go south, go...

"Cold wine here! Get yer cold wine here!" This you will not be hearing at a Major League Baseball park this summer. Sure, in the hoity-toity private boxes or on...

No, the word "umami" in this recipe does not name a sort of Asian shrimp. It is the "fifth taste," say many scientists, to be added to salty, sweet, acidic...

Vegetable eaters take heart; lots of wines taste great with foods cooked outside the animal protein corral. Stick to lighter reds, fuller-flavored whites and even, as suggested here, wines with...

We tend to think of Spain as red wine country, por excelencia. Everyone agrees that the Iberian peninsula as a whole turns out some of the world's great red wines...

Because ham and olives are salty, they're difficult partners for wine. The key is to choose wines that are low in alcohol, tannin and "extract" (all the stuff in red...

God causes grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the heart of...

Right out of college, I became what the British call a "wine merchant," hand-selling wine at a small shop that a former professor of mine and I had just started....

How sweet it is — this brisket. Sugar sure tastes good (science reaches way back to our detect-ripe-fruit days) but sugar has laid waste many a wine. Most wines are...

The southern Rhone Valley in France is a fecund orchard from which to pluck the low-hanging fruit called Cotes du Rhone. Of the globe's top three or four red wine...