New Wine App with Top 10 Wines in Your Liquor Store Now

Since we launched our free mobile wine apps in 2009, you’ve given us hundreds of suggestions for new features and improvements. (You can stop now … kidding.)

Our newest app that launches today, is built based on how you told us that you…

Top 10 Chocolate & Wine Pairings for Valentine’s Day

 

From the Star Ledger

When I started out in the wine business 30 years ago, no one ever talked about drinking wine with chocolate. Wine went with beef; with chocolate, we drank coffee.

Today, pontificating about what kinds of wine — red…

Epsilon Shiraz, Australia, Xavier, Chateauneuf-Du-Pape, Ravenswood Zinfandel, California Top Cellar Wines in LCBO Vintages Release February 4

By Gaby Israel

2009 Epsilon Shiraz, Barossa Valley, South Australia – $24.95

2009 was the third in a row series of ‘Good’ yet not amazing vintages in the Barossa region. Nevertheless, based on James Halliday’s review as well as Natalie’s, who gave it 90 and…

Matching Wine and Chocolate: 50 Ways to Keep Your Lover

50 Ways to Keep Your Lover this Valentine’s Day

Find wines to match 50 chocolate dishes at www.NatalieMacLean.com

“Want to seduce someone this Valentine’s Day?” asks Natalie MacLean, author of Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass. “Just…

Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand, Montes Carmenere, Chile Among Best Wines for Vintages Release February 4

Here are four fantastic wines from the February 4 Vintages Release. You can also get all 83 of my Best Value Wines and Top Rated wines for red, white, rose, sparkling and dessert wines that encompass…

A boldly irreverent approach expertly crafting a pleasing concoction of seamless storytelling and voluptuous food and wine writing – The Globe and Mail

By Kate Parsons

In this ambitious and thoroughly entertaining book, Natalie MacLean chronicles her travels to five continents and eight countries in search of quality wines at good prices. Along the way, she meets the quirky personalities behind the wine and picks up…

3 Tips for Buying the Rosés of Provence + Pair with Salmon, Roast Chicken, Asian Dishes and Salads

The last chapter of my new book Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines is about the lovely rosés of Provence. I was fortunate not only to sample many mouth-watering, bone-dry, food-friendly rosés, but I also cooked a multi-course…

Rainbow Trout Recipe with Brown Butter, Lemon Capers and Pine Nuts Paired with Foxglove Chardonnay, California

A simple but elegant way to prepare rainbow trout. Pair this dish with an un-oaked Chardonnay with citrus notes and a zesty acidity such as Foxglove Chardonnay 2009 from California

Serves 2

12 oz. rainbow trout filet, pin bones removed
flour for dredging
2 tbsp olive…

Pairing Wine with Spicy, Sweet and Sour Dishes for Chinese New Year and Beyond

Editor’s Note: I thought I’d add a few more tips to this article below to help with those who plan to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Although there are a number of spicy entrees in Chinese cuisine, there are also many with sweet…

Drylands Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand, Ravenswood Zinfandel, California Best Wine Picks for Vintages Release January 21

Here are four fantastic wines from tomorrow’s Vintages Release. You can also get all 53 of my Best Value Wines and Top Rated wines for red, white, rose, sparkling and dessert wines that encompass many price points, styles and regions.

It always…