The Gray Report

I've got an article for Palate Press up today about Natural Wine Week in San Francisco that I won't repeat here. This is just a lit...

I was about to delete a press release about a guy buying a winery in Calistoga to make cool-climate wines when I put on my imaginary beret ...

The first time I saw Robert Parker speak, at a tasting at the Culinary Institute of America, he made some strong statements of opinion as fa...

Forgive the absence of snark in this post. I'm writing in my role as Chairman of the Vintners Hall of Fame Electoral College to talk abo...

What's the world going to be like when China is the pre-eminent power? I'm not going to speculate about what it will mean for our ec...

The following are paraphrased emails because I don't want to give the sending companies the publicity they sought. Dear Mr. Gray: We lov...

I was reading yet another excoriation of the 100-point rating scale by some blogger I hadn't heard of when I realized something: 1) Comp...