The room-temperature rule was written for stone-walled rooms and fireplace warmth. Modern kitchens have made it a quiet disservice to every bottle of Gamay sitting on the counter.
The classic wine pairing rules were built for French and Italian tables. Tonight’s dinner is Thai, Korean, Mexican, Indian, or Japanese — and the old axioms have nothing useful to say about any of it.
Etna’s wines have earned comparisons to Burgundy — not for their flavor, which belongs entirely to the volcano, but for the precision of a classification system that maps each lava flow to a distinct wine. An introduction to the contrada revolution.
A 15% tariff compounds at every tier of distribution. TERROIR examines how wine tariffs are reshaping prices, consumer habits, and the wines themselves.
Before the sun has cleared the trellis line, a viticulturist in Fresno walks the headland to the irrigation controller mounted…
The first time a wine chemist isolated the molecule responsible for the green-pepper aroma in Cabernet Franc, the gas chromatograph…
Walk into any working vineyard in Val do Salnés in late spring and the first thing you notice is that…
On the wine lists that have started paying attention, the half-bottle section is no longer a polite afterthought tucked between…
Open the membership page of the International Wineries for Climate Action and the document is laid out the way a…
In November 2010, a small festival opened in Riebeek Kasteel, a wheat-and-wine village ninety minutes north of Cape Town. There…