John and Colette Bancroft write the Wine Of The Week column for the Taste section of the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times), Florida's largest daily newspaper. She is the newspaper's Book Editor and a former restaurant critic. He is Food & Wine Editor for Sarasota Magazine.

Wine Of The Week focuses on good everyday wines that are readily available at retail in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota metro area. Our price ceiling is $25 (although on special occasions we may break that barrier), which in no way limits our choice of wines for review. Shelves sag these days under the weight of excellent wines in our price range.

These are wines for the table and wines for sharing with friends. We index them here alphabetically under the usual categories: Red Wines, White Wines, Sparkling Wines and Rose Wines. Each entry carries the date on which the review appeared. On a separate page are arrayed in chronological order, beginning with most recent, first paragraphs of those reviews with links to the full review at the St. Petersburg Times website, making it a pretty simple thing to access the reviews that interest you most. Or just browse and trust to wine imbiber's luck.

We hope you enjoy the reviews and find them useful. We welcome your comments and suggestions for the column.

Cheers!