By Dan Berger Riesling is probably the greatest wine grape in the world. Since such a statement is open to
Read MoreBy Dan Berger Thirty years ago, I spied a rack of discounted wines and on it was a bottle of a 1971 Burgundy, a wine from a great vintage then already a decade old. It was on sale for half its original price. I
Read MoreBy Dan Berger When you sit down to taste a glass of wine, one of the first things you do is to make an instant judgment as to whether you like it. And the more you know about the wine, the easier it is to
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By Dan Berger Judging wine isn’t a science, though those who publish numbers for wine rankings imply it is equivalent to the grade placed on a math test. I’ve written before of the
Read MoreBy Dan Berger A close friend had a slightly irritating experience with a wine that had been highly rated by a major wine magazine. The publication gave the wine, a red Rhône, a score of 91, so my friend bought a bottle of it
Read MoreThe transparent truism about the marketing of wine is that we are all victims of a scheme that predetermines who will buy a certain wine based as much on its price as any other factor. All of this must be adjusted, of course, to factors
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We still excited for each wine release and tasting A decade ago, a wine was released that got me excited. Apparently no one else was as intrigued as was I. I was judging wines blind on
Read MoreBy Dan Berger For decades I have heard restaurant owners say they would like to find some alternative wines for their wine lists. Starting in the early 1990s restaurant owners began to tell me that they wanted to get away from the massive lists of
Read MoreBy Dan Berger Following a blind tasting of several wines, I took two of the best home to see how they would develop. The following day, both had improved markedly. No surprise, of course. The wines being evaluated were deep, rich red wines
Read MoreBy Dan Berger The facts of the wine business are often self-evident, and are totally incorrect. For instance, I am rarely asked any more how many bottles are in a case of wine. Decades ago, when wine was considered an esoteric beverage, most people were unaware that
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