Learn the basics of pairing wine with cheese for a delightful and easy entertaining experience. Wine and cheese has a reputation for being fancy, and I think that reputation scares people off. You stand at the cheese counter, then you stand in the wine aisle, and somewhere between the two you decide to just order pizza. Here is the good news. You only need four simple ideas to get this right, and none of them require a wine course. Learn them once and you can build a board for two or for...

A clone isn't a different grape, it's the same grape with a genetic quirk that changes how it grows and tastes. Here's what that actually means, and the clones behind some of the most recognizable wines on the shelf.

Sangiovese is Italy's most planted red grape, and it wears more names than almost anything else on a wine list. Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, they are all Sangiovese wearing a different regional disguise, and each one tells you something different about the grape's range.

A plain-English guide to wine cooperatives and how small growers pool resources to make wine together, and why the model produces some surprisingly excellent bottles.

Every time you pick up a bottle of wine, there is a number on the label quietly doing a lot of work. That number is the vintage, and once you understand what it is telling you, the way you shop for and drink wine changes.

Wine labels are communicating real, useful information, but they're just doing it in a language you may not have learned yet. The more wine you taste and the more labels you look at, the faster that language clicks.

Who says red wine has to be room temperature? A sommelier's guide to chillable reds: what they are, which bottles to grab, and how to serve them right.

Ever wonder why some Pinot Grigio pours out pink instead of pale straw? Meet ramato, the grape's original style, made with skin contact long before modern winemaking favoured paler, safer whites. Here's what's really in your glass.

The table below outlines how much residual sugar you can expect in your wine, should it be labelled as Dry, Off-dry, and so on.

If there is one grape that the wine world has built an entire mythology around, it is Pinot Noir. It is delicate and demanding, frustrating and rewarding, and when it is good, it is the kind of wine that makes you stop whatever you are doing and just pay attention.

Gamay Noir, to give it its full name, is a red grape variety that thrives in cool climates and granitic soils. It produces wines that are typically lighter in body, lower in tannin, and high in acidity, with a fruit-forward character

If Cabernet Sauvignon is the loudest person at the party and Pinot Noir is the one holding court in the corner, Grenache is the one you didn't notice at first, and then couldn't stop talking to all night.