Author: vinothekid

'Because every day feels more uncertain, we need our everyday wines — something tasty, straightforward, and cheap in the glass — to signify the day's end. For this, it's useful to maintain what I call a "working case" for your home, a boilerplate selection of wines to have on hand for everyday sustenance.'

'With Passover starting tonight and Easter on Sunday, this is a good week to think about pairing wine with festive meals.'

'What makes wine on tap not merely good but brilliant? It’s not the tap, it’s the keg.'

'The tulips on Park Avenue are ready to burst forth, the baseball season is about to begin, and I am drawn to German riesling.'

'Thanksgiving is supposed to be the holiday that drives wine types crazy, given the variety of food, the assortment of flavors at the dinner table, and the challenge in pairing all those differences into some coherent whole. But Easter makes Thanksgiving look easy.'

'Red wine drinkers on a budget have a lot to choose from these days.'

'Recently, a proliferation of relatively inexpensive bottlings from Oregon has popped up in local wine stores.'