Professor Ramirez, who is extremely passionate about Italian wines, joined us to share some of his favorite Piedmontese wines. An Arneis, a full-bodied white, was a surprise to most, and one of the wines had most of the class choosing either “A” or “D.” Book launch update!! We’ll also have samples from a new gourmet popcorn

First, I have to point out that one of my friends, Lisa, asked, “What do you mean ‘store’? People have left over wine?!” Ah yes, quite a wine lover my friend is. Anyway, in my classes, these questions come up week after week: How do you store open wine? Do you refrigerate open wine? Should

If you haven’t gotten a chance to read The Billionaire’s Vinegar, by Benjamin Wallace, consider adding it to your list. It tells of the story of a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux which sold for $156,000 in 1985. Supposedly originally purchased by Thomas Jefferson back in the day, and possibly a clever fake, the book weaves

If you’ve ever had the chance to be in one of our wine classes, you’ll know that we don’t have a lot of absolutes: your spouse likes one wine, you like another; the guy across the room smells petrolium, you smell roses. No big deal. We are mostly all one, big, wine-tasting hug. BUT, (and