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.…
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…