Articles - The Wine Chef

Bees are some of the hardest workers on our planet. Even though they’re small, they play a big role in our ecosystem, pollinating about one-third of the food we eat, including berries, apples, and almonds. As bees move from flower to flower, they spread pollen, helping plants, fruits, and seeds grow. Without them, many wild plants would disappear, and countless animals would ...

Today is National Wine Day, and, to celebrate, I'll be popping open a bottle of Seghesio Old Vine Zinfandel 2023. Seghesio has been growing Zinfandel since 1895, when the winery was established by Italian immigrant Edoardo Seghesio, who planted his first vines in Sonoma...

Fifty years ago today, on May 24, 1976, British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized a blind tasting, which became known as The Judgement of Paris, that changed the wine world forever. He gathered nine French critics, sommeliers, and restaurateurs, and set before them a lineup of Frenc...

Tenuta di Castellaro is making some of Sicily’s most exciting wines I’ve tasted recently: fresh, volcanic, saline, and expressive of place. During an online tasting, I learned about the winery’s stunning location in Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands, a remote volcanic archipelago off Sicily’s northeastern coast. Here, sea winds, mineral-rich soils, and intense Medite...