The wind kicks up eraser dust in Bouzy. In rare moments, standing alongside Grand Cru Pinot Noir vineyards and looking just a few dozen kilometers north toward the glitzy glam of Reims — the city that quite literally threw its trash here (used as fertilizer) into the late 1990s — it feels like class is [...]

New French oak, small production, dense California fruit, and an attentive, niche-savvy negociant. Is that enough to make great wine? What if we throw in some bandwidth? As consumers grow even more restless of their local liquor stores and opt-in to more mailing lists, wine clubs, and virtual megamarts, one company has decided to market [...]

He has done more to advance the culture of wine than any person dead or alive. In 1999, France even gave him its highest military award, putting him beside the other four-star generals of American food and wine: Julia Child, Robert Mondavi, and recently the great wine importer Kermit Lynch. His battered purple heart has [...]

Of course there’s more to learn about wine. A tour through Burgundy alone could make you purse your lips and think, perhaps, this is all just too hard. But Epicurious.com’s Wine Lover’s Companion shows us that, well, it is… and that’s okay.