Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.

No spirit speaks to the agricultural heritage of Northern California like apple brandy, which sadly is hardly produced at all anymore.

In a search for a response to the annual question of what to serve with the bird, the wine panel found that the Thanksgiving wine issue has no right answer, but many excellent solutions.

That any wine comes from Vienna seems absurd on the face of it. Great urban centers are not known for their vineyards, beyond a novel acre here and there. But Vienna is different.

Five Chinese dishes that are readily available to New Yorkers, and the five easy-to-find Italian wines they can be paired with.

At many restaurants in the Bay Area, the dedication to using local ingredients does not extend to the wine list.

The menu may reveal the inclinations and ambitions of a chef, but the crucial questions about the food will only be answered through the wine.

Inexpensive reds from the Douro region of Portugal can be great buys, but there are also producers making ambitious, expensive wines. The panel tasted wines from both price groups.

You would never know that the Ten Bells is a wine bar except that the wines are so good, and so offbeat.

Just how good is American riesling? To answer that question, the wine panel recently tasted 20 bottles.