Who hasn’t gone to an old James Bond movie and heard Sean Connery order a claret wine to complement dinner with his gorgeous companion? Being Americans, we typically don’t order a claret wine, ...

I’m guessing it was a British cookbook, because claret is a British nickname for red Bordeaux wine. It’s an Anglo corruption of clairet, which basically means “clear” or “pale-coloured.” This may seem ...

NEW WORLD wineries making blended red wines have a number of options for labeling, which, inevitably, leads to confusion. If one of the grapes accounts for at least 75 percent of the blend, it can ...