EDGE New York City

EDGE writer Heather Cassell hops aboard the Big Gay Wine Train for a rollicking good time as the wine flows and LGBT winemakers show off their best vintages from some of California’s most notable vineyards.

The next time you’re thinking of a week in Paris, think about spending a weekend in nearby Reims, the center of the Champagne region and home to one of the three most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in the world (the other two being Chartres and Amiens).

Edgartown has long had an easy relationship with wealth - and Water Street, the Harbor View Hotel’s acclaimed restaurant, reflects the gracious elegance that marked the pinnacle of American WASP culture, once so pervasive along the Eastern seaboard.

Nearly 500 years after wine grapes arrived in the 16th century, Chile has become a wine connoisseur’s destination.

From killer snow in the Sierra Nevada foothills to dry-season downpours along the coast to a hard freeze in temperate Paso Robles, 2011 is proving a challenging vintage.

Sonoma County’s "Gay Wine Weekend," takes place June 17 through June 19, 2011. The LGBT-oriented travel-and-event company Out In The Vineyard is hosting the first-ever Gay Wine Weekend 2011 during the heart of June’s Gay Pride Month.

Wine-grape expert Bill Shoemaker has taken to the roadsides of Illinois in search of wild grapes that he hopes can be crossed with their more refined cousins to create a tasty and hardy crop.

Thanksgiving is approaching and once again we’re faced with the problem of which wine is best with turkey and all the trimmings?

ce you had to be a winery or vineyard worker to get invited to a harvest dinner, the ample feasts celebrating hours of backbreaking toil. These days you just need a ticket.