It's a vegetarian-luddite nightmare, but for those who insist bacon makes everything better the iPad won't be an exception. The Better Bacon Book: Make Cook and Eat Your Way to Cured Pork Greatness, available now on the app store, teaches the simple...

The most important wine region to New Yorkers isn't Bordeaux, Tuscany or the Mosel. It's New Jersey, where almost all the fine wine they drink is warehoused before being delivered to local stores and restaurants. An amendment before the New York Senate would end this practice, and require wines to...

Olivier Cousin wants to let you know where his wines come from, the grapes he uses and the year they are made - except it's illegal, and now he may go to jail for it.

Nothing about his winemaking style seems criminal. His...

Organic, Biodynamic and natural wines are making the jump from the wine list to the book shelf. A great new crop of books have just been released by people passionate about both the quality of their wines and the methods behind how they're made. Here are the new publications, plus...

Dr. Adolfo Murillo sees nothing strange about his dual roles: running an optometry practice in California and producing premium organic tequila at his family ranch in Mexico. "During the week I help people to see better. And on the weekends I help them see twice as good."

When taking over...

Organic wineries from around the world showcased their wines at this year's Millésime Bio 2011, held in Montpellier, France from January 24th to 26th. Almost 450 wineries from fifteen countries participated, with the majority coming from France, Italy and Spain.

What began in...

The Languedoc is the largest wine growing region in the world, the oldest wine-making area in France, a mecca for organic wine growers and birthplace of the first sparkling wine. Every year wine buyers from around the world gather here for the Forum International...

Can the same landscape that influenced painters and poets also inspire murder? Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town weaves a 1984 murder of a beloved schoolteacher with the troubled past of a colonial ghost town outside Gloucester, Massachusetts, that's sheltered pirates, runaway slaves and witches since...

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Thanksgiving is the clusterf*ck of wine holidays. Pardon the language, no other word adequately describes the delusion that your carefully chosen wines will ever pair up with their intended dish. Most people...

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., is asking the California Department of Food and Agriculture to reconsider a $180,000 grant given to the Alliance For Food and Farming to combat the negative public perception of pesticide residues on fruits and...

Terry Theise had his first sip of wine from a bottle Rod Stewart handed down to his audience mid-concert. He went on to become one of the leading U.S. importers of German and Austrian wines, winning a James Beard Foundation award in the process....

Owning the last seltzer bottling plant in Brooklyn qualifies you as a psychiatrist. "People call me all the time just wanting to talk about the old days," says Kenny Gomberg, third-generation owner of Gomberg Seltzer Works. "It was a nostalgic part of people's lives....

The Tanged Vine Bar + Kitchen has become one of the hottest in wine bars in New York City, featuring organic, Biodynamic and natural wines -- as well as a few orange ones. The Organic Wine Journal sent Lyle Fass to interview Evan Spingarn, the mastermind behind the...

They act, sing, write and direct, but no celebrity career is really complete without their own wine somewhere on the résumé. Most stars simply team up with a winery to produce a vanity label, while others have dedicated themselves wholeheartedly to the wine business. The quality of these wines are...

Walking into a wine store can be intimidating. James Bond could fall out of a plane, crash through the ceiling, and still pick out the perfect Bordeaux. Not you, though. Hundreds of bottles stare back at you, mocking your inexperience. The labels are in different languages, you can't...