Two of the more intriguing and instructive wines I tasted during 2022 could serve as bookends for this year’s wine-competition circuit. The first was in January, at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in Cloverdale, Sonoma County. There, my assignment was to...

Notes from Dan Berger’s International Wine Competition at Santa Rosa last week: Sonoma County winemaker Carol Shelton’s standing as one of California’s more reliable hands with Zinfandel was enhanced as her voluptuous, complex and spicy Wild Thing 2020 Mendocino...

Rather than make a wine and then fish for foods with which to pair it, why not style a wine to accompany a specific type of food? Chaim Gur-Arieh has done just that. His questing, inventive and original mind has created a series of wines carefully conceived to...

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition  - Rodeo Uncorked! in cowboy shorthand - has two up-front goals: To showcase Texas wine and to showcase wines from the rest of the world, which is almost as big...

Rodeo Uncorked!, the international wine competition of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, gets under way Friday. This will be the 20th roundup. I haven't kept track of how many times I have judged at Houston, but show organizers say this is my 18th rodeo.A bit more...

Whenever a pandemic isn't disrupting the social calendar, I consult each fall with Dr. Ron Jan on the pairing of foods and wines for A Taste of Asia, a banquet fundraiser for the Paul Hom Asian Clinic, the oldest Asian health clinic in the United States, dating from...