The fifth annual international Drink Chenin Day takes place on June 15, 2018, and everyone is invited. A social media initiative combined with in-person events around the world, #DrinkChenin Day ...

A new insult has emerged in right-wing circles: “wine mom.” As in “organized gangs of wine moms” (meaning “educated snobs”), who use “antifa tactics” (meaning they go to protests) to ...

Perhaps chenin blanc is the white grape that I like best. To the extent that you can actually have a favorite grape. There are so many that are good. But chenin blanc is unusually exciting and ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If there was a boxing match of sorts for sommeliers, it wouldn’t be hard to get them to trade punches over ...

Certain wine regions and particular types of grapes often get unfairly overlooked. That’s why I made a point recently of writing about several, outstanding Pinotage red wines from South Africa. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Chenin Blanc from Napa Valley is bright, textured, and subtle; it tastes and smells like orchard fruit and gentle florals and has ...

Wine trends in California can be exceedingly subtle, particularly when they involve wines as transparent as Chenin Blanc, a white variety that’s been around for more than a century in California. For ...

For many wine drinkers white is not the color of wine they want to indulge in over the winter months. But, as the winter comes to a close, and the white stuff on the ground has been blessedly absent, ...

To that list of legacy grapes in California having a quiet resurrection, add Chenin Blanc. I won't dare say that Chenin has been a great grape on these shores, although in its native Loire Valley it ...

I LOVE CHENIN BLANC. This is not the first time I’ve made this declaration, but it’s worth noting again as winter approaches. That’s because Chenin is a white wine particularly well-suited to winter ...

It’s hard to name a West Coast wine whose demise has been so nearly complete as Chenin Blanc. With its roots in France’s Loire Valley and an important outpost now in South Africa (where it’s called ...

Chenin blanc is one of my favorite grapes, with a singular texture and a rare versatility. It’s capable not only of transparently expressing the qualities of different terroirs but of making bone-dry ...