IN THE 2006 MOVIE “Local Color,” a great but long-forgotten painter reviews the work of his young protégé and derides the clouds he has painted. “Clouds are not so white,” he says, comparing the ...

Editor’s note: The Red, White and Brew weekly feature will highlight drinks from local liquor stores. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Avon Liquor invites you into a world of textures in wine.

People can spend their entire careers teasing out the intricacies of a wine’s flavor. There’s so much to consider in a bottle of wine: the variety of the grape inside, where it was grown and what kind ...

And the great ones can be as moving as music. By Andrew Jefford What brings stature and significance to red wine? What commands the next sip, marks a memory, or turns a conversational lubricant into a ...