Bill St. John

On the fancy pants planet of wine and food pairings, much ado is made of matching seared foie gras with very sweet, nearly unctuous Sauternes from Bordeaux. You'd think so...

About all there is to say about Australian wine these days is "What a zoo!" Have that two ways: the menagerie of little critters on the labels of so many...

We don't realize how much salt we eat in everyday foods. Bread and rolls, for example, are America's saltiest foods, twice saltier than potato chips, says the Centers for Disease...

Folks, the answer to the question is cool-climate syrah (or shiraz, a "synoname" for the same wine). The question could be any of these: Tired of overly extracted, high-alcohol red...

As I gather my many wine-tasting notes, I'll plot out an idea for a column based on a constellation of these or those (such as last week's on clones of...

Oh, how veddy afternoon tea this is. But no tea, just wine, with these tasty sandwiches. White wine, of course, with freshness and verve, to vie with the mayo's fat,...

OK, here's the idea with this recipe: burger, a simple, everyman food, paired with a 1-percenter's wine. Sometimes it's delicious to drink the best made with food that's merely the...

A winemaker from Oregon of my acquaintance (who will remain nameless because what follows may be just too weird for most people) calls each of his vines by name. They...

Forget the simply adorned pizza; this one is as busy as an oven at Thanksgiving. But that also makes it delicious with a range of wines. The only caveat is...

No one has not heard of Chianti, Italy's most famed red wine. It's the wine in the straw-webbed flask at Tony's Trattoria in "Lady and the Tramp." It's Hannibal Lecter's...