Hi Is there such a thing as lousy expensive wine? Almost everyone shuns mildly sweet Riesling, particularly the sophisticated drinkers. I'd come...

So many tightasses.

On NPR they had a clip of Rex Pickett, the author of the book "Sideways," talking to fans about his book. Except instead of talking about the book, these...

Hello, My wife and I just moved into a new home where we actually have room for a small wine storage unit. I currently have about 45 bottles of...

As the Bay Area is currently undergoing a bit of a heat wave, our fancies turned this week to white wine, and for whatever reason we ended up drinking two...

Hello, This may be fairly old news to most of you, but I never realised the figure was so high. In Australia a variety can be labelled as say for example...

I guess if a person is a both a wine snob and a Mac Head they would be expontially Anal. I know some of you fit perfectly.

Hi all. Following discussion on this in a recent thread, , Michael Pronay sent me the text of an article which appeared in 1996. In it, Bruno Prat is...

I don't know which group is more ANAL. Perhaps some of you could help me judge. It always amuses me that when a MAC HEAD finds out that my shitty old Windows...

Pierre Antoine Rovani with a very long, but very well-founded criticism of Nossiter's movie on the arker...

If some animals bother you, then why indulge them? Why play with them? It's one thing (in slow periods) to flip them the occasional dog biscuit and watch...

Hello, I'm going to visit Munchen this June, so I was wondering: which good products and producers should I consider? I'm going to get a wine atlas and start...

Someone sent me a site from BC-- http://www.blastedchurch.com/merlot.php I thought it raised some interesting issues: Shades of Randall the Ranger! I...

Hi all, A friend of mine asked me to ask this group: Can anyone tell me how long this wine can be kept ? Many thanks, Jean

If you are fans of Pontet Canet and the Tesseron family, they have a 19 min video "The 4 Seasons of Pontet Canet" on the website, www.pontet-canet.com. It's...

"Jean Balthazar" wrote: A question from a newbie: I was able to buy some bottles of Cheval Blanc 2003. It doesn't say...

Remarkable item in today's Palo Alto Daily News (Sunday, March 6, 2005, page 10). Diana Diamond reports asking a consultant at an Apple Computer retail...

I am a wine newbie and was looking at a pump that is supposed to make an open bottle of wine last a few days longer after pumping some air out. Is using a pump...

As a well-known AFW resident busybody, I've periodically taken it upon myself to post courtesy reminders. Mark's post re trolls has spurred me to once again...

As luck would have it my wife's company is sending her to Paris for a conference for a week at the end of this month, so me and the kids are tagging along so...

Monday Betsy made roast chicken with mushroom/leek "stuffing" (from new Cook's Illustrated, the chicken is butterflied and draped over the stuffing, highly...

Hi All, From posts in this NG, the opinion is that Moscatos are best when young. When digging through my cellar, I found the subject (NV) wine - probably 4-5...

Hello hello, I'm living in Auckland NZ and am looking for some comparison wines to the following that, I hope, I will not have tried and might start me on a...

Well, I tried the various suggestions, but to no avail. Finally, in semi-desparation, I cut off a corner and poured -- and poured -- etc. It was a dirty job,...

Salut/Hi Steve, le/on Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:25:20 GMT, tu disais/you said:- A friend of mine is convinced that keeping a silver spoon in a part used bottle...