- November 17 2023 by Tom Maresca With the holidays all of them fast approaching it takes energy I m capable not to turn into a Grinch So as inflict my Seasonal Affective C

Tom Maresca has been writing about wine for 40 years. He is the author of two wine books, Mastering Wine (which won the first-ever Clicquot Prize for Wine Book of the Year) and The Right Wine. He has been a frequent contributor to Decanter and t

Books Mastering Wine. Bantam Books, 1985; revised edition, Grove Press, 1992. Awarded the Clicquot Prize for Wine Book of the Year The Right Wine. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990; Grove Press paperback, 1992 Chianti Classico. International Wine & Food So

Before Tom was a wino, he was an academic. Eons ago, after an undergraduate career at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, he completed a PhD in English at Johns Hopkins University. He spent four years as assistant professor of English at Ohio St

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With the holidays – all of them! – fast approaching, it takes all the energy I’m capable of not to turn into a Grinch. So as not to inflict my Seasonal Affective Churlishness (SAD SAC) on my innocent readers, I’ve decided to follow Diane’s excel

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My good friend and colleague, Danish wine expert Ole Udsen, has published a very important and detailed article on what sustainability really means in the vineyard, in the cellar, and in our wine consumption. I think his piece so significant tha

I’m just back from a not entirely great cruise down the St. Lawrence River from Montreal through Québec and around Nova Scotia to end in Boston. We’d hoped for long stretches of forested shores and autumn leaves and even some birds, but it was n