Drinks

Savoir faire versus megabucks. Artform or hypeform? Can only true vineyard nobility produce quality wine? Are we losing the craft forever to make way for cookie-cutter wine production on a…

Price does not always bear a direct relation to quality, but this article on the Cotes du Rhone wine region finds that it pays off to shell out a few…

Writer and wine publicist Tom Wark, of the fabulous Fermentations.com online wine portal, is our very own Corktease contributor on all things California. Tom will keep us up to date…

Australian labs are working on a way to lower alcohol content in wine by adding yeast…I am a bit skeptical about fiddling with perfection, but then again, I am not…

Let’s get serious now at Corktease. Please. Well, all right, not too serious. But I have gleaned some nuggets of basic-and-easy information to start our learning adventure (about wine of…

We are familiar with Amazon.com for their wild success when all the other dot coms were flunking and for their excellent selection of books. They sell other goods, of course,

Corktease contributor Tom Wark writes in Fermentations about his experience in wine auctions, first as an insider (he used to work for one) and then as a customer who is…

No, it’s not that someone already has dibs on that bottle. You’ll find the word RESERVE on some bottles, giving you the vague notion that there is something special about…

Monterrey County, California, is enjoying a grape boon. They are so prosperous in the vine that they don’t have enough wineries to handle the production. Some of their grapes are…