William Rice

The Fetzer family of California's Mendocino County was in the forefront of the movement to produce wines from organically grown grapes. When Brown-Forman the Kentucky-based spirits company, purchased the family...

Sangiovese is a name we've been hearing a lot lately. The grape's fame is based on its role as the dominant variety in Tuscany's Chianti region as well as the...

Each year it becomes easier to recommend wines for Passover. The reason is that a small but growing number of producers for Europe, Israel and the United States are applying...

Like several other ambitious Burgundy merchants in recent years, Michel Laroche, a producer of superb Chablis, looked to the south of France to create a line of bargain wines. In...

It is difficult to get two chefs to agree about anything, but when someone can convince nearly 200 of them to agree on their favorite restaurants, that's news. The convincers...

After strutting its stuff at conventions on either coast, the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade is bringing its show to Chicago. The group will present the first-ever Spring/Midwest...

The folks who made Geyser Peak wines so successful have other irons in the fire. Among them is Venezia, a label created for California wines made from Italian varietals. In...

Brian Schoenbeck, pastry chef at the Westin River North Hotel, returned from Paris last month with the Grand Prix International de la Chocolaterie. The biennial competition, sponsored by the French...

To accompany a main-course soup, pasta topped with wine-braised mushrooms, a meat or vegetable stew, or roast fowl in this chilly season, zinfandel comes to mind. To be more specific,...

Valentine's Day calls for flowers and fruit and sweetness. Here's a wine that can provide all three, from the Washington State winery Columbia Crest. In 1997 the Columbia River Valley...