Dave Oncale

How lucky can a person be?Well, perhaps “fortunate” is a more appropriate word. Over the past four years — just about four, anyway — I have toured the county’s tasting...

On one end of the extra virgin olive oil spectrum are the Tuscan blends — often potent and powerful, with an in-your-face peppery temper. The other end is represented by...

There is nothing to avocado toast.Oh, it’s popular and all. Credit card processing firm Square claimed last year that Americans shell out some $900,000 a month just for wedges of...

When Dustin Fults finished with all the fussing a winemaker must endure between harvest and bottling, his syrah began to act up.The wine was enthusiastic, almost to a childish extent....

They say necessity is the mother of invention. It just may be, however, that tedium — the long drives elsewhere to find items unavailable in Lake County — deserves just...

Scott Simkover can tick one thing off his bucket list.No — he did not challenge the Niagara Falls, tromp the entire Appalachian trail or even shell out for a box...

Few people can begin an anecdote by referencing a long ago conversation with the owner of vineyards in Italy. Other winemakers, certainly, and perhaps well-heeled travelers — but not the...

Any conversation of favorite wine varietals includes chardonnay. For many people, in fact, the topic is limited to the grape.As we all know from current political discourse in this country,...

To bird or not to bird? That isn’t really a question pizza lovers hesitate over.Many people scorn anything other than cheese and charcuterie on a pie. To suggest the addition...