W. Blake Gray is US editor for Wine-Searcher, the world’s most-visited wine website. He has written about wine for many publications including the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times. In 2013 he won the Roederer Award for best online wine writer in the world. During the pandemic, Blake rediscovered his childhood love of cheeseburgers, but his death-row meal is steamed crabs. His cocktail of choice is a Manhattan. Blake lives in San Francisco.
has 230 wineries that between them have won more than 1500 medals in international competitions. The region is increasingly popular with international wine tourists and its wines are sought out at the finest restaurants in Mexico City.
Let’s say you open a fine bottle of Burgundy and it’s OK but not as delicious as you hope. What can you do? It’s not like food, where you could add hot sauce or a little salt. But there is a step you can take: change the background music.