Gift-giving for wine lovers is usually difficult. The wine lover, like the anything lover, almost always knows more about the object of adoration than the giver, so the risk of an underappreciated gift is high. You can’t rely on the generically expensive. If your friend loves age-worthy old-vine Zinfandel, that nice bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin might […]

As I’ve written about a number of times — and it bears repeating — entertaining is really about the desire to spend time with your friends and family, and pleasuring ourselves with good food and each other’s company. To create the space for this to happen, it’s as much about the prior planning as anything […]