Late August and a vibrant and rare during this summer sunset is about to dive behind the sky.

It would be enough if Jeannie Cho Lee had just offered a handy guide to pairing Asian food dishes with appropriate wines, thus assisting Westerners grappling with some less familiar flavor combinations at their meals as well as the burgeoning numbers in Asia acquainting themselves with the fermented grape.

Russian Federal Service for Consumer Rights and Human Welfare Protection will refrain from visiting Moldovan wine producing enterprises, the service's chief Gennady Onishchenko said.

On a ragged stretch of sidewalk in northwest Harlem across the street from a dingy bodega, a weathered wooden door separates the outside world from an oenophiles' wonderland.

Winemaking has a long history in Lake Erie and in Ohio. But it isn't the past that interests winemakers and state officials so much as the burgeoning present.

The train has been stalled on the tracks for 30 years. Yet those aboard declare the station to be dead ahead.

A vineyard in New Zealand has started to produce the official wine of Watford Football Club.

My husband, Jack, and I enjoyed our first trip to California. This photo was taken at the Artesa Winery in Napa, Calif., which was built into a mountainside.

'Everyone thought we were crazy' to plant red grapes, says Christopher White, of Denbies wine estate in Wiltshire enlarge Even by the ever-improving standards of English wine, 2010 looks like being a very good year.

Vermont vineyards and wineries will be open to the public this weekend to celebrate Vermont-made wines.

At $39 I expect a lot of wine. Rosenblum essentially never disappoints. Deep dark black cherry/cranberry jelly hue with sweet ripe black cherry aromas with rich tarry scents and blueberry pie.

Next week, Shelton Vineyards in Dobson will celebrate its 10th anniversary, and one of the many events taking place will benefit artists in the county.

So what did you do on your summer vacation? We did a lot - so much that it will take several columns to tell you about all of it.

My love affair with the wines of Paso Robles continues. My biggest fear about Paso is that all the attention being lavished on this still-quiet corner of California by Parker, Wine Spectator and others will Napa-ize the area.

Workers box pinot noir wine at Willamette Valley Vineyards, Oregon's third-largest winery, which is part of a big push by Northwest wineries to expand their exports to Hong Kong, an emerging wine market and gateway to an even larger market in mainland China.

Chef Linwood Blizzard and executive chef Rhys Lewis discuss wine and food choices for the November 2010 Mondavi wine dinner at the Williamsburg Inn.

A metamorphosis is underway across France's legendary Bordeaux vineyards. The land that turns out grand cru wine is hardly the usual setting for giant construction cranes.

This is the scan of my actual cap! It's rare that a wine tastes just as the tasting notes suggest, but my Lamarca Prosecco DOC was exactly as described: honeyed floral and white peach aromas, dry, crisp, and refreshing, a hint of grapefruit, and a light, effervescent texture.

Frank Reider says, "People shouldn't be intimidated by wine. They should come out and try and learn." His knowledge of the Chilean and Argentinean wines in his book, Wines of Passion: The Best of South America , is remarkable.

A Sicilian winemaker has harvested his grapes at night this year, as he does every year.