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.…
On January 11, 2024, Karen MacNeil published a short dispatch on WineSpeed under a deliberately flat headline: Bye Bye Big…
A geologist with a four-pound rock hammer stands on a south-facing terrace above the Mosel and brings the head down…
The ribeye arrives well-marbled and rested, and the diner who has read enough to know better than to default to…
It is nine in the morning at a fine-dining house in a mid-sized American city, and the person who runs…
The patient at the headache clinic could drink a vodka soda without consequence. Whisky was fine. Gin was fine. Two…
Two glasses sit on a tasting bench, both Assyrtiko, both from the 2022 vintage. The one on the left is…
A dry-farmed vine in its third leaf is not, on the surface, a sympathetic object. The canopy is sparser than…