New year, new beginnings. New to wine?

If I were a wine and I had to marry this recipe, I'd ask it, "OK, where am I pairing up with you? With the meaty richness of the lamb? With the sweet-and-tangy of the yogurt? With the starch and base of the vegetables and grains?" How about we make this a catholic wedding and suggest that a lot...

Many Mediterranean cultures eat fish for New Year's Eve; fish cakes are rarely absent from a menu that might include multiple preparations of seafood. These cakes, slightly spicy and with lots of complementary flavors, nicely mark a dinner at year's end. And so do the recommended wines, all...

After our son Colin was born, in January 1983, I began a search for a red wine that I could buy from that year, then cellar for a while and begin drinking for special occasions in his life.

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve dinners tend to be deluxe, even sumptuous affairs. This crab-and-pasta preparation fits the bill. It would seem fitting to pair such fare with wines equally rich and opulent. But nuanced, aged reds or buttery, oaky whites also overplay and tire the palate....

The convention when pairing wine with either eggs or ham is "don't." Ham is too salty; eggs, too gooey. (They gum up the palate and block any wine's flavors.) But there are saltier foods than ham that beg for wine (oysters, for instance, and Muscadet; or salted nuts and fish and fino sherry)....

Many people divide the world of wine into old and new, a distinction based on time: the Old World has been making fine wine a lot longer than the New. For example, countries like France, Spain and Italy are part of the Old World, whereas Australia, the United States and Chile are part of the...

Never has the hole of a doughnut tasted so delicious.