WineCompass

My Dear Wormwood, .... Sipping absinthe or vermouth prompts me to mimic Uncle Screwtape when addressing his inexperienced nephew as I've...

The region has been cultivating grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It is also the home to the oldest surviv...

Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) has been used for several millennia in traditional medicine to treat a range of ailments, including digestiv...

Last week I attended Spain's Great Match held at the Del Mar Restaurant located in The District Wharf. The day long event started with...

Some say that the designation "Verde"(green) is due to the acidity and freshness characteristic of Vinho Verde and that it reminds...

Costers del Segre is Catalonia's most inland wine region and generally speaking, this region is harsh. It's semi-arid, with a climat...

Lately, we having been avoiding traveling through Charlottesville on our passages to Waynesboro and Staunton and bailed at the airport to ta...

I am continually blessed to receive multiple shipments of Argentinean Wines with Altitude from Domaine Bousquet . Their estate vineyards ar...

After perhaps a 15-year hiatus we finally returned to the 250-acre Oakencroft Farm & Winery as the winery has re-opened and still makin...

"Beginning with the Greeks, who arrived on the eastern part of Sicily in the 8th century BCE, the idea of methodical grapegrowing pract...

We've been trying to make the rounds visiting Mid-Atlantic distilleries and ventured to the closest to us --  Open Road Distilling  in t...

The Puglia Wine Region is a long, thin wine region in the far south-eastern corner of the "boot" of Italy. According to wine-sear...