School’s in session, on your terms: We’re asking the Valley’s top wine gurus to answer all your wine-related queries, tackling them one at a time each Wednesday, so we can all stress less and pour ...

Have you ever stood in the liquor store gazing at hundreds of bottles of wine with no idea of which one to buy? Well, there's no better person to discus Wine 101 with than a sommelier, a wine expert ...

You’ve heard it before: Wine is like a metaphor for life. As cheesy and pompous as it sounds, it’s actually kind of true. Take the same exact grape, grow it in different terroir — that’s wine-speak ...

It occurred to me recently that while Reverse Wine Snob is meant to be friendly enough that someone who knows nothing about ...

Following on the heels of its successful online Waitstaff Wine Training Guide, Merryvale Vineyards has created "Wine 101 — a Wine Lover's Primer," an interactive educational course in wine basics.

A stuffy tasting room with snooty suits pouring expensive wine can be intimidating and make tasting wine feel seriously inaccessible. But no one started out an expert. When the lady next to you at the ...

We see it in our readership: Online wine stories don't have the views of restaurant opening stories or reviews. I hear it from all of you, who tell me that wine country is a pain, too far and too ...

Walking into a major grocery’s wine section can be an intimidating experience. Rather than having a local winemaker on hand to answer questions and offer tastes, a shopper is faced with a wall of ...