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…
A small cellar in the middle of red-wine fermentation, two open-top fermenters side by side, both filled with the same…
Clipped to a board on the wall of a small Loire cellar, the addition log for a single cuvée of…
On a tasting bench in a producer’s cellar in Villié-Morgon, two rock fragments sit on a tray labelled in pencil.…
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…
