American Wine

I never wanted to become an expert on wine. I just wanted to know a little more than my wine snob friends.

Recently, I became a customer of my partner’s wine biz: The Bonner Private Wine Partnership. It publishes educational articles and videos on its website from a true expert. (He looks like a gravedigger, but is enormously entertaining.) In a recent issue of “The Wine Explorers Letter,” he teaches something that I’m sure my wine snob friends don’t know: How old and respectable America’s wine history really is.

Click here to read the article and to watch a video explaining the seemingly unnecessary wine-sniffing ritual. (It’s all about biology and evolution.)