Blue Collar Wine Guide: An Experiment

Day 28: Salton Intenso Sparkling Brut

This week I’m traveling in Brazil and looking, of course, to put myself in the shoes of a typical wine consumer in Brazil.

When I do that, here are a few things I know:

1. I don’t actually drink much wine — less…

Day 26: Three Wishes Pinot Grigio

I never thought to look at Whole Foods.

Day 25: Cabernet Sauvignon from Italy

Guest post by Elisabetta Tosi, Italian wine writer and consultant based in Valpolicella, Italy

“The wine of this month is a typical example of its category: a unmistakable Cabernet Sauvignon of Veneto, which must be only distantly related…

Day 24: Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc

The idea of this series is to “stand in the shoes of Jane-and-Joe-in-front-of-a-wall-of-wine.”…

Day 23: Cupcake Prosecco

For a series about wines that people really drink, and drink a lot, it’s hard to bypass Cupcake.

Day 22: Sofia Blanc de Blancs

Curious about the trend of portable single-servings of wine — MANCAN, anyone? — I started asking around for…