Andrew Lampasone, owner of Wine Watch in Fort Lauderdale, enjoys a good meal with his wine.

While helping their son look for a college in 1992, Mel and Dorothee Goldman became smitten with the scenery and the friendliness they encountered in the Finger Lakes.

In honor of Labor Day and anyone who might be headed up to Napa over the long weekend, this week's Chron Appetit is: What's your favorite Wine Country dining secret? As always, please share additional thoughts in the comments.

Dave Guest had a 10 year plan. It just got interrupted in year six. Guest, who lives in Black Diamond, was a news editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer when it ceased putting out a daily newspaper.

The lower the booze, the better the food tastes, and the more you can drink without being blotto.

Lovers of fine fizz can indulge in glasses of delicious, new, springtime sparkling pinot gris.

The North Coast wine industry is a sprawling, multi-billion dollar enterprise. It encompasses hundreds of thousands of acres of prime agricultural land in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Marin, Lake, and Solano counties, commands millions of acre feet of the areaa TMs ever-more scarce water resources, and frequently operates on a scale so industrial that ...

Fauchon is synonymous with French decadence in the food world. Ever since Auguste Fauchon, a street vendor and wine merchant, started his company back in 1886, customers have been flocking to stores that bear his name to pick up macaroons, fancy jams, champagne, chocolates, mustards, crackers and wines.

Posted on September 3rd, 2010 11:29am by Andrew Chalk Filed under Andrew Chalk , Wine & Spirits Virtuoso Selections is a distributor of winesA that focuses on small, independent producers from around the world.

Bulgarian makers of high-quality wines now have nearly 70 000 decares of their own vineyards.

The winery submitted five wines in the Minnesota State Fair's "International Cold Climate Wine Competition," and won medals for four of them.

We British buy most of our wine from supermarkets. Indeed, Tesco alone accounts for one in every five bottles sold.

For centuries Champagne has been synonymous with celebrations in all corners of the world.But the global demand for this popular drink has created a dilemma as Champagne's carbon footprint is extremely high.

Few wines on the planet can have seen the sort of renaissance achived by viognier.

"Different" is the only word John Kontrabecki can think of to describe this year's grapes.

Hurricane Earl may do more than sour Labor Day Weekend plans if he makes landfall.

Conventional wisdom has it that spicy food is no good with most California and new-world wines .

SEASIDE Seaside restaurant Crush bills itself as a vintner's caf. It offers a good variety of wines by the glass, small plates, sandwiches and sushi.

Wines : Tim Adams Protege Riesling 2008, Louis Latour Macon-Lugny 2009, Warre's Otima 10 Year Old Tawny Port Photo: PERATREE Some dishes strike fear into the whizziest of wine-and-food-matching wizards , and I'm sorry to say that at first glance Daniel Boulud's chop chop salad looks like one of them.

Planning a party or a social event can be tricky as you must assess all the aspects of the party and decide on the guests, food, music and the drinks.Here are a few useful tips to assist you to buy the right quantities as well as a few tips on how to save money when serving the drinks.