Michael Austin

This complex, hearty dish has sweet, savory and spicy elements, and could work well with a red or white wine. Here are three suggestions — a riesling from Germany and...

Let’s hope that your wine never tastes like cocktail sauce, that zippy red stuff that comes with shrimp appetizers and raw oysters on the half shell. But let’s also use...

Fried chicken and sparkling wine go together like any great duo you can think of. They complement each other while also letting their individuality shine through. Here are three bottles...

The modern, large-scale experiment with wine continues in the country known today as Israel. Maybe “contemporary” is a better word than “modern.” The claim could be made that the Holy...

When you think of the broad concept of “enjoying wine,” or at least when I think of it, it’s hard not to imagine a glass being raised. Sometimes it’s a...

Rioja, your reputation precedes you. As a region and a wine style, Rioja is as famous as it gets in Spain. This is the Spanish place, the wine, that most...

For a rich and savory dish such as this one, depending on what you’d like to highlight or tone down, you could rely on the smoky nature of a Sicilian...

This dish is rustic and hearty, and its bold flavors demand a wine that can stand up to them. To complement the soup’s rich, sweet and savory flavors, you could...

This spin on a Chicago Lenten classic is simple but also a little rich, so any wine that you match with it needs to stand up to that richness and...

In the continuing effort to spread the word that not all riesling is sweet, we now turn our focus to the Finger Lakes region of New York. Of course, riesling...