School’s in session, on your terms: We’re asking the Valley’s top wine gurus to answer all your wine-related queries, tackling them one at a time each Wednesday, so we can all stress less and pour ...

San Antonio Winery may be in the least likely of spots -- in the heart of bustling, urban-office-park'd downtown -- but its grape-growing history goes back. Way back. Making it the ideal spot to learn ...

You’ve heard it before: Wine is like a metaphor for life. As cheesy and pompous as it sounds, it’s actually kind of true. Take the same exact grape, grow it in different terroir — that’s wine-speak ...

Following on the heels of its successful online Waitstaff Wine Training Guide, Merryvale Vineyards has created "Wine 101 — a Wine Lover's Primer," an interactive educational course in wine basics.

A stuffy tasting room with snooty suits pouring expensive wine can be intimidating and make tasting wine feel seriously inaccessible. But no one started out an expert. When the lady next to you at the ...

Blessed with lavish scenery and luscious wines, the Napa Valley is the kind of place you could spend days exploring. But it's compact enough that even if you only have an afternoon, you can still get ...

You’ve tasted most of the varieties–Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Merlot–and heard the terminology–dry, sweet, misty–but wrapping your head around the basics of wine can seem like a daunting task. Yet, ...

We see it in our readership: Online wine stories don't have the views of restaurant opening stories or reviews. I hear it from all of you, who tell me that wine country is a pain, too far and too ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanne O'Brien Coffey covers food, drinks and travel. This article is more than 5 years old. Every year, I try to come up with a ...