Wine-making organic standards are more complex than standards for vegetables -- organic vegetable production is earth-friendly, health-friendly and tastes better. For organic wine the case needs more elaboration.

Finally, someone in grape valley climbed out of the wine cellar to figure out what wine drinkers really want aside from great taste: peel-off wine labels.

If your relationship with wine and its selection process is anything like ours, then you're going to love Nirvino - the wine website that recently elevated us from wine-neophytes to virtual sommeliers.

Most wine lists are content to bamboozle customers, writes Bruce Palling. A crisp glass of Chablis in hand ("the most compelling white wine of all"), ...

Would you consider me a total moron if I couldn't tell the difference between red and white wine?

Is it really better to show up with something undrinkable than to show up empty handed?

Wine is certainly a beautiful drink. One would be remiss, though, to associate any of its beauty with its production.

A rule I don't intend to break this Thanksgiving is to only drink wine from American producers. Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday where New World foods take center-stage. Why shouldn't what's in the wineglasses follow suit?

Trying to identify a wine's characteristics by the smells wine evokes, is a fun activity not only for those working on their blind tasting skills, but for anyone trying to increase their wine acumen.

Despite her acuity, Barbara Holland's polemic, The Joy of Drinking, made me eye my liquor cabinet warily and pour myself another ginger ale.