Food & Wine

Food Pairing Guides

Spring Wine Pairing Guide: Matching the Season on Your Plate and in Your Glass

Lighter Food, Brighter Wines Spring cooking shifts toward fresh vegetables, lighter proteins, and herbs — and the wines on your table should follow. Heavy Cabernets...

Wine Tips & Education

How to Build a Wine Collection From Scratch

Building a wine collection has gotten complicated with all the conflicting advice flying around. As someone who accumulated bottles randomly for years before developing an...

Food Pairing Guides

Perfect Wines to Pair with Exquisite Cheeses Today

Elevate gatherings with perfect wine and cheese pairings. Complement or contrast their profiles to create delightful palate experiences. Learn pairing basics for enjoyable matches.

Wine Regions & Varieties

Tomato Wine Guide

Okay, tomato wine is real and I have Opinions about it. I first tried tomato wine at a weird little agricultural fair in upstate New...

Red Wine Pairings

Food Pairings for Malbec Wine

I’ll be honest: Malbec was the wine that made me want to become a sommelier. In 2011, I tried a 2009 Catena Zapata Malbec with...

Food Pairing Guides

Rijsttafel Indonesian Feast

I didn’t know what rijsttafel was until my friend dragged me to a Dutch-Indonesian restaurant in Amsterdam about eight years ago. “Trust me,” she said....