Matt Miller

For some, the sub-holiday known as Black Friday is the best shopping event of the year. For others it’s just something to do that gets you out of the house and — let’s face it — allows you to take that pent up anger from dealing with your family out......

It’s Thanksgiving again, which mean's it's time to rush out to grab a bottle of wine to take to dinner. When it comes to pairing a bottle of wine to a Thanksgiving meal, however, there is no easier pairing than Beaujolais nouveau, a wine traditionally released for sale on the......

It’s Oscar time in the wine world with Wine Spectator Magazine is rolling out its "Top 100 Wines of 2014" list, starting with the top ten countdown, which began yesterday. As the wines' names are released, a few each day this week, retailers and collectors scramble to find bottles of the......

Fergie has a wine. Yes, it’s true. She has her name on shoes, fragrances, Black Eyed Peas, and now grapes. It almost feels as if Fergie is running around sticking her name on everything she can, sort of like that question-mark sticker in the 2003 “Where Is The Love” video......

This year, Rosh Hashanah falls between Sept. 24 and 26. But the Jewish New Year is nothing like the drunken debacle synonymous with New Year's celebrations of other faiths, maybe because kosher wine is often pretty horrible stuff.  It can be sweet, sticky — and perhaps best poured over pancakes......

Whenever you have people over, you find yourself buying wine, and since you want to be a good host, you’re buying cheese to put out as well, right? So, what kind of cheese should you buy? Or if you’ve already bought the cheese, what kind of wine should go with......

While standing in the wine department of a Whole Foods recently, I witnessed something that I see most everywhere wine is sold. Two seemingly well-established couples walking in tandem scanned the bottles. One woman said: “What do you think of this one?” The reply came from one of the men......

Only a half a tank of gas away from Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo (SLO) wine country is what Napa might have been like in the 1970s, and how Santa Barbara was before the boom of Sideways. About 45 minutes north of Santa Barbara’s famed Santa Rita Hills and Santa......

Okay, we’ve all been there. You’re going to a party or a picnic, or maybe you’re going to check out the Twilight concert at Santa Monica Pier on Thursday night, and you don’t want to bring a really nice bottle of wine, but all the inexpensive bottles of wine just......

Pair It!, a food and wine-pairing app, recently told me that for $4.99 I could have great pairing suggestions at my fingertips. As a sample, it suggested that a rich, ripe and earthy Italian wine is the perfect pairing for chocolate truffles and blue cheese. As a wine professional, I can......