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The Society of Wine Educators (SWE) will present an impressive lineup of in-depth classes for wine devotees at its 37th annual conference, to be held July 31 through August 2, 2013 at the Renaissance Hotel at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

When I started visiting the Napa Valley in the late 1970s, the region had begun to explode with new wineries after a relatively slow post-Prohibition resurgence.  As is often the case, the local connoisseurs were sometimes the last to recognize the impending potential of their own region.  I was somewhat surprised that the better San Francisco restaurants at the time carried few Napa

January 22, 2013 – Oenophiles, gourmands and enthusiasts of the good life will once again reconvene on the beautiful western shores of Maui in celebration of the 32nd Annual Kapalua Wine & Food Festival, presented by Visa.

You can YouTube, Tweet and Facebook 24/7. Pausing to schedule cooking classes seems so 1990s. Why cater to a dozen guests when you touch thousands with a Tweet?

Wente Vineyards, a Livermore Valley wine country gem, celebrates the one year anniversary of Executive Chef Matt Greco's arrival at The Restaurant at Wente Vineyards with a special menu that features Wente Estate raised cattle.

You won’t find a bottle of Jim Nantz Chardonnay on the wine list at your favorite restaurant or a bottle of Peter Deutsch Cabernet Sauvignon at your number one wine shop. You might have, but instead look for their Chard and their Cab under the name of their new joint-venture, Sonoma-based wine brand – The Calling.

“I don’t own anything,” Bernard Portet says proudly.  “I have a winery without walls.”

Piemonte Land of Perfection Grand Tasting Event was held on July 18th 2012, in New York City. It was an afternoon of wine tasting, educational seminars, and networking opportunities exclusively for buyers, restaurateurs and journalists – overall, an important day for the rediscovery of wines from Piemonte in the United States.

When I was invited recently to visit the Euganean Hills as an adjunct to Vulcania 2012, a conference in the town of Soave about wines grown on volcanic soils, I must admit I had never heard of it.  Or them.  So I pulled down my 10-year-old version of the Oxford Companion to Wine to look it up.  It wasn’t there!  Silly me – try the Italian name, “Colli Euganei.”  It stil

When Mike Wallace died this spring, he was the last of a trio of media amigos who for decades dined regularly at the Le Grenier restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard, where Wallace and humorist Art Buchwald had summer residences and novelist William Styron and his family lived most of the year.  Styron died in 2006, and Buchwald a year later.

What do you do if your father is the man who made Blue Nun the biggest wine celebrity in the U.S.?  If you’re Bettina Sichel, you follow in his footsteps and become a wine marketing expert.