Put two scoresheets side by side on the same desk. On the left, a tasting card with a row of…
The check arrives at the end of a long table. A bottle of 2010 Barolo, opened earlier with a salute…
Walk a row in an old California vineyard with someone who has spent a career looking at vines, and the…
In a Kakheti cellar in spring, after the floor has been swept and the room cooled to the year’s working…
On a Tuesday morning in November, in the small print-out of the by-the-glass list that lives on a clipboard behind…
On a morning in early 1961, somebody at the Institut National des Appellations d’Origine opened a copy of Sud Ouest…
Two bottles on a wine-shop shelf in November of 2025, both white Burgundy, both Chardonnay, both bottled by Maison Louis…
A host pours a magnum of Champagne into a wide-bellied crystal decanter and sets it on the table to “let…
Two bottles sit on the tasting table. Same producer, same 2015 vintage, same wine in every respect except one. The…
Turn a bottle of imported wine over and look at the back, just above the legally required Surgeon General warning.…