Meet my favorite accompaniment to champagne — an easy, elegant, delightfully fishy salmon spread.

My latest entry: Zweigelt. A crisp, easy-drinking red from Austria, it’s a great match for the kind of rib-sticking cuisine that makes winter bearable.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from STBNY. (That’s our dog/unofficial Spin the Bottle mascot Nutleigh taking a well-deserved break after making that snowman all by herself. She’s quite gifted.) I hope your holidays have been …

So in my last post I alluded to some exciting news at STBNY. Well, here it is: I’m now a contributor at Food52, a great project brought to you by the very talented team of Amanda Hesser, Merrill Stubbs, and a host of incredible home cooks.

My thoughts on some mid-priced Bordeaux…and a really bad marketing campaign.

I try to avoid the “here’s what I drank last night” approach to wine blogging, just because I don’t think it’s that useful or that interesting. However, I do make exceptions if I think the wine is particularly notable. Last night was one of those exceptions.

I’m officially jumping on the holiday bandwagon here with a STBNY festive gift giving guide. In keeping with my “teach a man to fish” approach, I’m not going to suggest specific wines, but instead offer some general guidelines and a little inspiration.

Yesterday I went to the Uncork New York event at City Winery, an event space/restaurant/bar/winery in Manhattan. Kind of a mistake.

In my welcome post, I mentioned that when given a choice, I prefer to drink organic wines, biodynamic wines, or, at the very least, “sustainable” wines. Here’s why.

One of the most common questions I get is: is it ever OK to buy a wine because of its label? The right answer, of course, is no. But.