Bill St. John

This seemingly simple, straightforward dish holds together several elements that can be difficult for wine: sweetness, salt, fat and chili heat. Avoid big, tannic, heavy reds; they'll come off as...

Second in a two-part look at the wines of Austria: This week, reds. You know a country gets serious about making red wine when it stops growing cabernet sauvignon, the...

In the beginning, wine was like ice cream; there was only chocolate and vanilla — aka cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. When people wanted a red wine, they asked for cabernet....

The nicest thing about recommending wine to Gen Xers and Gen Yers is that they don't have ear lids. Tell them that riesling is the world's greatest white wine grape...

This Mexican-style soup — more stew than soup, really — reminds us that substituting one beverage for another is what works for pairing wines with certain foods. What we usually...

The maxim "Follow the money" works for good investigative journalism — and for learning about good wine. When, during the past decade, winery heavies from Napa and Sonoma such as...

The entire reason for a wine's appellation, or the name of the place where the grapes are grown that make the wine, is to tell you what kind of wine...