Sam Decker

  I’m just going to come out and say it: Americans are flavor wimps. While Europeans are off enjoying the good life with their delightfully bitter...

If oats can be milk, then rosé can be an act of protest. Hear me out. Last summer a friend came to me for wine help....

It’s said that the best wines flirt with faults. This could be the motto for orange wine, which luxuriates in the flavors and textures...

It used to be that the best wine from classic regions like Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne, Tuscany, and Napa was still inexpensive enough to drink...

For the vast majority of winemaking history — roughly 8,000 years — the height of a winemaker’s ambition was to make wine that wouldn’t...

Sam Decker is the general manager and wine director at Atria in Edgartown, where he teaches weekly wine courses. Register at mvwineschool.com. He will...

Uncorking the myths of wine aging.

A recent trip to Istanbul yields new wine discoveries.

Enjoying champagne without celebration.

Holiday wine pairing