but it's not a realistic example of cooking with wine, since other ingredients will have a big effect on how things taste. I needed to do some real cooking. To test the effect of a wine's flavor ...

T here are lots of ways to introduce flavor into home-cooked meals, and one of the best is alcohol. From red and white wines ...

Germans and Hungarians were among Sonoma’s earliest winemakers, but it was Italians who put Sonoma on the world wine map. They planted grapes like Barbera, Carignane, Zinfandel and, later ...

How do you avoid taking wine too seriously? Join the conversation below. The real wine world, by contrast, hasn’t been so much fun lately. Winemakers whose sales are down—their tasting rooms ...

This Japanese cooking wine adds its tangy-sweet flavor to braises ... but it will lack the depth of flavor of the real stuff. Aji-mirin usually has a lower alcohol content of around 8%.

Fruit matters — the wines with real juiciness of fruit added more to the dish than wines that were more on the savoury spectrum. I didn’t try cooking with a faulty wine, so I can’t support ...