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Rosé: A Wine for All Seasons, Finally Getting Some Respect

Photo: mrsraggle, Flickr.    By Ron Blumenfeld During the summer, wine drinkers are drawn to crisp, refreshing white wines, while avoiding the hearty reds that help fortify us against the winter cold. A rigidly seasonal approach to wine drinking is in my opinion a mistake. Meanwhile, though, there’s another option—rosé. The once-disparaged wine has been steadily [...]

How to Pick a Wine Store

;   By Ron Blumenfeld People have been making wine since they discovered that fermented grape juice was an appealing alternative to water. It’s hard to know how wine tasted thousands of years ago. But the wines we enjoy today are usually quite drinkable and often delicious. And wine’s gone truly global, with a huge [...]

How I Went From Doctoring to Wine Making

by Ron Blumenfeld Ron Blumenfeld is our new wine columnist. Ron is a doctor, but these days, you’re likely to find him tending the vines at Domaine des Boires, where he’s one of the vineyard’s owners. Look for Ron’s column on the first Friday of every month. He’ll write about some aspect of wine—making it, [...]

LIRR Wine Train Offers N. Fork Wines But Car Odor Mars Experience

LII Railroad train offers north fork wines but the stench mars the experience

Wine Bars Invade the Upper West Side

Leslie Albrecht of DNA Info put together a great piece about the influx of chi-chi wine bars on the Upper West Side. Want to know where to go?  Leslie will guide you up and down the avenues. Leslie called me to get my take on the trend. As I said to her: “They started out [...]