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A Bottle’s Highest Calling
Some ideas deserve to become tradition

A Culture of Excess
Welcome to the Wine Business

Australian Wine Basics
Land of the big, easy drinkers!

Australian Stickies
Over the top dessert wines

A Guide to Organic and
Biodynamically Grown Wines
You can’t judge a wine by its label

A Port Primer
An incomplete guide to Port style wines

48 Hours
A Wine Preservation Test

Bad Wine 101
How to tell the diffrence between bad wine and a bad bottle

Bad Wine 202
Where are the screw tops? A TCA rant.

More Bad Wine
A third annual Wine Guy TCA rant

The Wine Industry’s Dirty Little Secret...
The Wine Guy's Fourth Annual Corked Wine Tirade!

Dirty Little Secret (Part IV)
The Wine Guy's Sixth Semiannual Corked Wine Tirade!

Blending Your Own Bordeaux
Have fun and learn something too

Bottle Shock
& Other Wine Quality Mysteries?

A Contrast in Styles
Visiting Miner and Elyse Wineries on the same day...

A Wine Crossword Puzzle
Test your wine knowledge!

The Down Side of Globalization
Wine as an Investment?

Let Them Eat Cake
Thoughts on the French Wine Industry in 2004

Carmenère
The Lost Grape of Bordeaux

Heresy
Questioning Bordeaux

Indiana’s New Direct Shipping Law
So you thought you could get wine shipped back....

The Shipping Saga Continues
So now direct shipping is legal, but there’s a catch....

Laws, Sausages and Wine Reviews
Here's an addition to Otto Von Bismarck's adage about things you don't want to watch being made... laws, sausage, and wine reviews!

Out, Damned Spot!
An Endorsement

Petit Verdot
The Orphan Grape of Bordeaux

Reading German Wine Labels
Jennifer Rosen of the Rocky Mountain News deciphers, the biggest mystery in all of winedom!

Sideways About Pinot Noir
Thoughts on a very difficult varietal...

Washington's Columbia Valley
The Perfect Wine Region

The Power of Popular Culture
Can a grape file a defamation lawsuit?

Speed It Up!
The Wine Guy’s Fifth Annual Corked Wine Tirade

Tasting vs. Drinking
There is a difference....

The Wines of Chile
The real vines

Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father of American Wine...

Thoughts About Decanting
The best way to improve red wine

Thoughts on Beaujolais Nouveau
The Wine Guy's Annual Rant about "Bubble Gum" Wine!

Thoughts on Sparkling Wine
If you stick your nose in the air, you’ll miss some good ones

Happy New Year
Thoughts on Sparkling Wine

How Cold is your Chardonnay?
Tips on interpreting winespeak and serving wines

How We Select Wine...
A Policy Statement

“Proprietor’s Unfiltered Special Barrel Select Grand Private Reserve”
A brief guide to understanding American wine labels

A brief guide to Italian Wine Classifications
When "where it’s from” is more important than "what it is!”

The Misunderstood Wines of Spain

A Very Incomplete Guide to French Wine
Understanding French Wine Labels
"Enough to make you dangerous!"

Rules of Thumb II
an incomplete guide to wine etiquette

The Judgement of Paris
The wine tasting that changed the world

Wal-Mart & Wines From China
April Fools Day Issue 2005

Why are there Sulfites in My Wine?
The Truth About Sulfites - I Think?

The Truth About Wine Cellars
According to the Wine Guy

Swirling & Sniffing
Learn to "wine speak" with your nose

Wine & Cheese
Wine Pairing Basics

Wine Competitions vs. Wine Reviews
The Wine Guy's Opinion

Wine Numbers
A Little Numeric Wine Trivia

Wine Quotes
From Hemingway to Thurber

Wine Varietal Basics
Is it {ve-gin-ear} or {vee-oh-nay}

Wine Words
Twenty Wine Terms you Should Understand