Home cooks fall into some surprisingly common pratfalls when it comes to cooking with wine—and pop an awful lot of questions, too. Do you need to buy special cooking wine?

The ways of wine in cooking are legion: to marinate, macerate, saute, poach, boil, braise, stew, reduce or deglaze. Some cooks use wine for stir-fries, steaming or blanching.

Good cooks, I've noticed, are never at a loss. If a soup is thin or a vegetable tasteless, they pick it up with a little bit of whatever happens to be on hand. From a sprinkling of herb to a brisk ...

I’m considering some new recipes for the holidays, but so many of them have wine in the sauce and I usually don’t like […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 36°F.

Our wine columnist found 5 basic white Burgundies that offer a taste of a very good year at an affordable price point. The 2019 vintage in Burgundy was extraordinary, but the premier cru bottles ...

What if you don’t drink alcoholic beverages, and the ingredient list on the recipe for coq au vin includes 1/4 cup brandy and 1/2 bottle red wine? Or, a few minutes in, the risotto recipe says ...

I have a new favorite wine that I like so much, I even reconsidered writing about it. This bright, refreshing white is one of the few remaining bargains from Burgundy (pending President Trump’s ...

A. Cooking wines like Sauterne date to the days when wine wasn’t something the average consumer kept on hand. Names like Sauterne, Burgundy and Chablis were meant to sound European, but the wine ...