Nearly every week, a professional panel tastes dozens of wines in The Chronicle's Food & Wine department conference room. When the tannin settles, the panel has helped select the ones we feature each ...

I’ve been making my own vinegar since 2008, ever since I met up with some food blogging friends at our local farmer’s market and was handed a small plastic bag that contained a blob of something that ...

It was a great party, and the stacks of dishes in the kitchen attest to that. Washing up, you work your way through the plates, serving dishes and flatware and then come to several open bottles still ...

Add vinegar to the list of things you ought to be making yourself. Once you've got that trick down, you'll be using it in dishes that go way beyond salad. February, the month of romance, is all about ...

three bottles of wine in a bucket, two closed and one opened - Westend61/Getty Images Oops, you popped open that bottle of wine with the intention of finishing it off ...

It feels a lot like alchemy. The transformation is remarkable. Magical even. In glass jars, alcohol, water, sugar and usually discarded bits of a piece of fruit -- tough, spiky skin and the inedible, ...